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Division Strategies and Remainders
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Division Strategies and Remainders
Help plan supplies for a community sports day. Solve each challenge using a strategy that makes sense. Show working where you can, and remember that a remainder may change the answer in a real situation.
1.The sports tokens are arranged in 4 equal rows with 6 tokens in each row. Write the two division facts that this array shows: 24 ÷ 4 = and 24 ÷ 6 = .
2.A volunteer needs to check 56 ÷ 8. Which multiplication fact can they use?
- 8 × 7 = 56
- 56 × 8 = 7
- 7 ÷ 8 = 56
- 56 ÷ 7 = 8
3.There are 96 drink bottles to share equally between 2 team tables. Use halving to work out how many bottles go on each table.
4.A coach is packing 84 bibs into bundles of 7. Break 84 into 70 + 14, then calculate 84 ÷ 7.
5.Charlie works out 72 ÷ 8 by writing (70 ÷ 8) + (2 ÷ 8) = 9 + 0.25 = 9.25. Is her method correct for finding how many whole groups of 8 are in 72? Explain briefly.
6.A stall has 53 apples to place equally into 6 baskets. How many apples go in each basket, and how many are left over?
7.There are 53 players travelling to a sports day. Each minibus seats 6 players. What is the smallest number of minibuses needed? Explain what happens to the remainder.
8.A team has 198 tennis balls and packs them into containers that hold 10 balls each. About how many full containers can they fill?
- About 2
- About 20
- About 200
- About 2,000
9.A volunteer calculates 157 ÷ 12 = 13 remainder 1. Use multiplication and addition to check whether the answer is correct.
10.Write a division calculation with a dividend between 40 and 60 that has a quotient of 7 and a remainder of 3. Then write the calculation and its answer.
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