What To Do With Remainders By the end of this lesson, you will know four different ways to handle a remainder in real life.

Problems with a remainder require you to be extra thoughtful. This activity will teach you how to deal with remainders in real life. My division problem has a remainder. Now what do I do?

Once you’ve got a remainder, Ignore the remainder U se the remainder. It’s your answer! R ound your answer up. Sharing is caring!

Ignore the Remainder Mrs. Bushell is organizing her recipes into a binder. Exactly 4 recipes fit on each page. She has 29 recipes. How many pages will Mrs. Bushell fill? 29 ÷ 4 = What does the 1 represent? The 1 is the extra recipe that will go on a new page, but that page will not yet be filled. What does the 7 represent? The number of pages that will be filled. In order to answer the question, I need to DROP the remainder. Mrs. Bushell will fill 7 pages. 7 R 1

U se the Remainder. It’s your Answer! The students in Miss Joseph’s class are forming groups of 4 for a math game. There are 29 students in her class. How many students will be left after groups of 4 are formed? 29 ÷ 4 = 7 R 1 What does the 7 represent? The number of groups that are formed. What does the 1 represent? The number of students who will be left after the groups are formed. In order to answer the question, I need to USE the remainder. There will be 1 student left after groups are formed.

R ound Up Mrs. Pascarella is buying cupcakes for her class. The cupcakes come in boxes of 4. There are 29 students in her class. How many boxes of cupcakes does Mrs. Pascarella need to buy if she wants to give each student a cupcake? 29 ÷ 4 = 7 R 1 What does the 7 represent? At least 7 boxes of cupcakes will need to be ordered. What does the 1 represent? The number of students who would not get a cupcake if only 7 boxes of cupcakes are ordered. I need to ROUND UP so that everyone gets a cupcake. Instead of 7 boxes of cupcakes, she needs to order 8 boxes. 8 X 4 = 32, so 8 boxes will be enough cupcakes

Boat Ride At an amusement park, 16 people are waiting in line for a water ride. Each boat holds 6 people. How many boats will be completely filled? Bonus: Which of the strategies did you use? Ignore, Use It, or Round Up

Apples Miss Eddy is giving out 13 apples to 4 of her students. She wants each student to get the same amount of apples. How many apples should each student get? Bonus: Which of the strategies did you use? Ignore, Use it, Round Up

Trading Cards Thirty-three trading cards are to be placed in plastic sheets. Each sheet can display 8 cards. How many pages are needed to protect all the cards? Bonus: Which of the strategies did you use? Ignore, Use It, Round Up

Field Trip Twenty-six students are going on a field trip, and 8 parents have offered to drive. If each of the 8 cars holds 3 kids, how many kids will not have a ride? Bonus: Which of the strategies did you use? Ignore, Use It, Round Up

Awards A total of 58 awards will be given away to the soccer team. Each box holds 8 awards. How many awards will be in the partially filled box?

Football Teams There are 62 students who want to play in the Football League. Each team needs exactly 6 people to be full. How many full teams can be made for the Football League?

Use, Ignore, or Round? Justin needs 68 juice boxes for the picnic on Saturday. He needs 26 juice boxes for another picnic on Sunday. Juice boxes come in packages of 6. How many packages does Justin need to buy so he has enough juice boxes?

Use, Ignore, or Round Gina has one hour and twenty minutes to spend beading bracelets. It takes her 8 minutes to bead a bracelet. She needs the last 5 minutes to clean up. How many bracelets can she complete?

Use, Ignore, Round? Gigi’s class is packing calculators that a company donated. The students are putting the same number of calculators in each box. Gigi has a stack of 290 calculators to pack. She fills 4 boxes the first day and 2 boxes the second day. She has 2 calculators left. How many calculators does Gigi put into each box?

The 7 fifth grade teachers decided to give their students a pizza party on the last day of school to celebrate their graduation. The teachers ordered 52 pizzas to split evenly among their classes. How much pizza will each teacher receive for their class?

Use, Ignore, Round? When Brock turns 16, he will buy his parent’s car for $900. He has 5 years to save. He has $21 now. In Year 1 and 2 he can save $75 each year. He can save an equal amount in years 3,4,&5. How much will he need to save in years 3,4, & 5 to have enough to buy the car?

Baseballs The baseball coach has 98 baseballs to share equally among 8 players. After the baseballs are distributed evenly, how many baseballs will be left?

Field Trip If 13 parents want to join us on the Mud Walk field trip and are all riding together, how many cars will they need if each car holds 6 people?

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