Interpret remainders

- Helps us better understand word problems

-Helps us get more exact answers

- Helps us use division in real life situations

• Add 1 to the quotient

• Ignore it

• Remainder is the answer

• Solve the division problem on the right.

• This will be the same problem for each word problem

• We will have the read the problem carefully to determine what to do with the remainder

• Did you get the same quotient?

• Did you get the same remainder?

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Ignore it! In this problem we ignore the remainder because Mrs. Miles is dividing equally. The Oreos that do not fit in the bag are ignored and we only tell how many will fit EVENLY into the bags.

Add 1 to the quotient. We must add 1 because ALL kids must get to the movies. We can't leave anyone behind. We would have to get another car for the remaining kids.

The remainder is the answer. We want to know how many toys will NOT fit in the basket. We want the LEFTOVER.