Lesson 20

Interpret Remainders in Division Situations

Lesson Purpose

The purpose of this lesson is for students to represent and solve contextual problems that involve dividing a whole number of up to four-digits by a single-digit divisor, resulting in a number with or without a remainder. Students also interpret the result and remainder given a situation.

Lesson Narrative

By now students have developed various strategies to divide multi-digit numbers by single-digit divisors and have used different representations along the way. In this lesson, students apply what they learned to solve a variety of word problems that involve division (MP2). 

  • Action and Expression
  • MLR8

Learning Goals

Teacher Facing

  • Interpret the result and remainder of division in situations.
  • Represent and solve problems that involve finding whole-number quotients and remainders.

Student Facing

  • Let’s solve problems involving division and interpret remainders.

Required Preparation

CCSS Standards

Building On

Addressing

Lesson Timeline

Warm-up 10 min
Activity 1 15 min
Activity 2 20 min
Lesson Synthesis 10 min
Cool-down 5 min

Teacher Reflection Questions

What productive and unproductive beliefs did students show when they were solving problems today? How might you amplify the productive beliefs and address the unproductive ones?

Suggested Centers

  • Watch Your Remainder (4–5), Stage 1: One-digit Divisors (Addressing)
  • Compare (1–5), Stage 4: Divide within 100 (Supporting)

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