Lesson 1
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Dividing by 2
When you divide, you make equal groups. Then you find how many are in each group.
Examples
Solve
Divide. Use objects to help.
Tyrell has 12 cat treats. He wants to give 2 cats the same number of treats. How many treats should he give each cat?
___________ ÷ ___________ = ___________ treats
Lesson 2
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Dividing by 3
You know how to divide to find how many are in each group. You can also divide to find the number of equal groups.
Example
Ron has 12 books. He gives some friends 3 books each. How many friends does Ron give books to?
You can use objects to help you divide. You can also use repeated subtraction.
Solve
Divide. Use repeated subtraction or objects to help.
Ava is putting 24 baseball cards in an album. Each page can hold 3 baseball cards. How many pages can Ava fill?
___________ ÷ ___________ = ___________ pages
Lesson 3
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Dividing by 4
You can divide by 4.
Example
Mr. Popov has 20 oranges. He needs 4 oranges to make a glass of juice. How many glasses of juice can he make?
Solve
Divide. You can use objects to help.
Tell which numbers are the dividend, divisor, and quotient in Exercise 4.
Dividend: ___________ Divisor: ___________ Quotient: ___________
Evan has 16 eggs. He needs 4 eggs to make a batch of muffins. Does he have enough eggs to make 5 batches? Explain.
___________ ÷ ___________ = ___________ batches
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Lesson 4
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Dividing by 5
You can use repeated subtraction to divide by 5.
Examples
Brad has 15 plants. He puts the same number of plants in 5 different rooms. How many plants are in each room?
Solve
Look at each picture. Find the quotient.
Divide. Use repeated subtraction to help.
Lesson 5
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Dividing by 1
You can learn a simple rule to help you divide by 1.
Examples
Solve
Divide.
Read the clues. Find the dividend and divisor.
The difference of the numbers is 8. The quotient is 9.
Dividend: ___________ Divisor: ___________
The sum of the numbers is 7. The quotient is 6.
Dividend: ___________ Divisor: ___________
Lesson 6
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Finding a Missing Factor
Multiplication and division are connected.
Examples
Solve
Divide to find the missing factor.
Write a multiplication sentence to find the quotient.
For healthy eating, children should eat 1 cup of fruit each day. Lidia eats 7 cups of fruit in 1 week. She eats the same amount of fruit each day. Does she eat enough fruit? Write a division sentence and a multiplication sentence to find the answer.
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Lesson 7
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Fact Families
Some multiplication and division sentences use the same numbers. They make up a fact family.
Example
Solve
Complete the fact family.
Write the fact family that uses 9, 1, and 9.
Kate has 16 balloons. She gives 2 friends an equal number of balloons. How many balloons does she give to each friend? ___________ If she shares the balloons with 8 friends, how many balloons does she give each friend? ___________
Lesson 8
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Dividing by 1-5
You can divide by 1 through 5. Use objects, multiply, or subtract to help.
Examples
Solve
Divide.
Children in elementary school need about 10 hours of sleep every night. Noah slept 40 hours in 5 nights. He slept the same number of hours each night. How many hours did he sleep each night? Did he get enough sleep?
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Lesson 9
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Problem Solving
Some problems have extra facts. Read carefully. Decide which facts you need.
Example
Tammy has 18 rocks for show-and-tell. She wants to set them in 3 equal rows. The rocks are 7 different colors. How many rocks should she put in each row?
Before you solve the problem, you need to answer these questions:
What is the question? “How many rocks should she put in each row?”
Which facts do you need? “18 rocks,” “3 equal rows”
Which fact is not needed? “7 different colors”
Write an equation. Use a box for the unknown number.
Solve
Decide which facts you need. Then solve.
Mr. Williams arranges his class into 3 groups for story time. There are 5 students in each group. Each group reads 4 books. How many students are in Mr. Williams’s class?
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Luis is putting stickers in his journal. Each sticker is 1 inch long. He sets them in 3 rows of 4. How many stickers does Luis have? Write a division equation for this problem and solve.
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Chapter 5 Test
Divide. Use objects, multiply, or subtract to solve.
Fill in the blanks. Use the 9 as the dividend and 3 as the divisor. Then solve.
___________ ÷ ___________ = ___________
Divide to find the missing factor.
Multiply to find the quotient.
Read the division problem. Write the multiplication sentence you can use to solve it.
Mr. Newton is making 3 winter coats. Each coat must have an equal number of buttons. How many buttons should he sew on each coat if he has 12 buttons?
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Write the fact family that uses 4, 32, and 8.
Faith picks 45 strawberries. She wants to give 5 strawberries each to 9 friends. Does she have enough strawberries?
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It takes 4 lemons to make 1 pitcher of lemonade. Ryan has 24 lemons. Ryan has 5 trays of ice. How many pitchers can Ryan make if he uses all the lemons? If you need to, draw a picture to help solve.
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