Activities

1. Find the quotient of

2. Find the quotient of

3. Find the quotient of

4. Find the quotient of

5. Bill has pounds of hamburger meat.  He wants to split it up into  pound burgers. How many burgers can he make?

6. Abby is making a necklace that is inches long.  She is placing a colorful bead every  inch. How many beads will she need to make the necklace?

7. A hiking trail needs to have markers placed every  mile.  If the trail is 18 miles long, how many markers do you need?

8. Donna is baking a cookie recipe that calls for  cups of sugar. However, when she goes to take out her measuring cups she can only find the one-half cup measuring cup. How many one-half cups will she need to fill to get the correct amount of sugar for her cookie recipe?

9. Sandy knows the area of her rectangular living room is  ft². She wants to rearrange her furniture and already measured the length of the room as  feet. She needs to find the width to determine if her two couches that are each 8 feet in length will fit along this wall but can’t find a tape measure in her home. Explain to her a different way to find the width of the room. Then, find it to determine if the couches will fit.
   
   
10. Write a real-world math problem that requires you to divide the fractions  and .  Then solve your problem.

Answer Key/Rubric

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5. Divide  by  and you will get .  Students should answer that he can only make 7 full size hamburgers and have some meat left over.
   
   
   
6. Divide  by  and you will get 44 beads that will be used on one necklace.
   
   
   
7. Divide the distance of the trail 18 miles by  and you will get a total of 45 markers.
   
   
   
8. Divide the amount of sugar  cups by the measuring cup size of cup  and you will get  or simplified to times you will fill the measuring cup
   
   
   
9. Acceptable answers may include, but are not limited to:

• Area = length times width
• Use inverse operation of multiplication, which is division, to solve for missing width
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• Width = feet
• Couches will fit because 8 + 8 = 16 feet which is less than  feet

10. Answers will vary.

      Acceptable answers must include:

• Appropriate word problem requiring division of 
• Answer for division problem given as 
• Word problem answer given with appropriate label