Real-world examples of division with remainders for third graders

📚 Quick Study Guide

🔢 Division: Splitting a number into equal groups. ➕ Dividend: The number being divided. ➗ Divisor: The number you are dividing by. 🎁 Quotient: The number of groups you can make. 🍩 Remainder: The amount left over that can't be divided evenly. 💡 Formula: Dividend = (Divisor x Quotient) + Remainder. For example, $17 \div 5 = 3$ with a remainder of $2$, so $17 = (5 \times 3) + 2$.

Practice Quiz

1. What is the remainder when 25 cookies are divided equally among 6 friends?
   1. 3
   2. 4
   3. 1
   4. 2
2. Sarah has 17 stickers and wants to give 3 stickers to each of her friends. How many stickers will she have left over?
   1. 5
   2. 1
   3. 2
   4. 0
3. A farmer has 38 apples and wants to put them into bags of 5. How many apples will be left over?
   1. 8
   2. 3
   3. 2
   4. 1
4. There are 47 pencils to be shared equally among 9 students. How many pencils will each student get, and how many will be left over?
   1. 5 pencils each, 2 left over
   2. 4 pencils each, 3 left over
   3. 6 pencils each, 1 left over
   4. 5 pencils each, 1 left over
5. John has 23 toy cars and wants to arrange them in rows of 4. How many rows can he make, and how many cars will be left over?
   1. 6 rows, 1 left over
   2. 5 rows, 3 left over
   3. 4 rows, 7 left over
   4. 5 rows, 2 left over
6. A group of 34 students is going on a field trip. If each van can hold 8 students, how many students will be in the van that is not full?
   1. 6
   2. 2
   3. 4
   4. 5
7. Lisa baked 19 cupcakes for her class. If she wants to give each of her 7 classmates a cupcake, how many cupcakes will she have left for herself?
   1. 3
   2. 4
   3. 5
   4. 6