Chapter Name

4 Division Strategies

Sh o w W h at You Kn o w

Use Arrays to Divide Draw to complete each array.

Then complete the equation.

1. 2.

8÷4=_ 21 ÷ 3 = _

Multiples Write the first six multiples of the number.

3. 4: _________

4. 10: _________

Subtract Through 4-Digit Numbers Find the difference.

5. 626 6. 744 7. 5,413 8. 8,681
–_ 8 –_36 –2,037
__ –_422
_
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: ©HMH

Real
MATH in the World
Myra is making key chains for her school craft fair. She
has 78 charms in her craft box. Each key chain uses 4
charms. How many key chains can she make with the
charms she has? How many more charms would
she need if she wants to
make 25 key chains?

Chapter 4 161
Vocabula ry Build e r Go Online For more help

Visualize It Connect to Vocabulary

Sort the words into the Venn diagram.
Review Words
Distributive Property
divide
dividend
division
divisor
factor
multiple
multiplication
product
quotient
Preview Words
compatible numbers
remainder

Companyy • Image Credits: © Alejandro Rivera/Getty Images

Multiplication Words Division Words

Understand Vocabulary
Write the word that answers the riddle.

1. I am the number that is to be divided in a division problem.

_____

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Compan

2. I am the amount left over when a number cannot be

divided equally. _____

3. I am the number that divided the dividend.

_____

162 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

CHAPTER 4

Name Lesson 1
Florida’s B.E.S.T.
Investigate Remainders ● Number Sense & Operations 4.NSO.2.4,
4.NSO.2.5
I Can use models to solve division problems with ● Algebraic Reasoning 4.AR.1.1
● Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
remainders. MTR.2.1, MTR.3.1, MTR.4.1, MTR.5.1,
MTR.6.1, MTR.7.1

Investigate
Materials ■ counters
Taliya and 2 friends are playing a game of dominoes.
There are 28 dominoes in the set. Taliya wants each player
to receive the same number of dominoes. Can she divide
them equally among the 3 players? Why or why not?

You can use division to find the number of dominoes

each player will receive.

A. Use 28 counters to represent the 28 dominoes.

Then draw 3 circles to represent the 3 players.

B. Share the counters equally among the 3 groups by

placing them in the circles.

Draw a quick picture to show your work.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (t) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

C. Find the number of counters in each group and the

number of counters left over. Record your answer.

_ counters in each group

_ counter left over

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 • Lesson 1 163

Draw Conclusions
1. How many dominoes does each player receive? _______________

How many dominoes are left over? ___________________________

2. How many players can play the game if each player receives
9 counters? Will any counters be left over? Explain.

Make Conections
When a number cannot be divided evenly, the amount left
over is called the remainder.
Use counters to find 39 ∙ 5.

• Share 39 counters equally among 5 groups. The number of

counters left over is the remainder.

Draw a quick picture to show your work.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (tr) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
For 39 ÷ 5, the quotient is _ and the remainder
Math MTR Engage in discussions on
is _ , or 7 r4.
Talk 4.1 mathematical thinking.
How do you know when
Write the remainder as a fraction. there will be a remainder in
a division problem?
Since there are 4 counters left and you need 5 to keep the groups
equal, the remainder is _45 .

164 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name

Share and Show Math

Board

Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.

1. 10 ÷ 3 2. 28 ÷ 5 3. 15 ÷ 6 4. 11 ÷ 3

5. 29 ÷ 4 6. 34 ÷ 5 7. 25 ÷ 3 8. 7‾
20

Divide. Draw a quick picture to help.

9. 4‾
35 10. 23 ÷ 8

On Your Own
11. MTR Explain how you use a quick picture to find the quotient and remainder.

12. Alyson has 46 beads to make bracelets. Each 13. For 13a–13d, choose Yes or No
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

bracelet has 5 beads. How many more beads to tell whether the division expression
does Alyson need so that all the beads she has a remainder.
has are used? Explain.
13a. 36 ÷ 9 ● Yes ● No

13b. 23 ÷ 3 ● Yes ● No

13c. 82 ÷ 9 ● Yes ● No

13d. 28 ÷ 7 ● Yes ● No

Chapter 4 • Lesson 1 165

14. Macy, Kayley, Maddie, and Rachel collected 13 marbles.
They want to share the marbles equally. How many marbles on the
will each of the 4 girls get? How many marbles will be left over? Spot
Oscar used a model to solve this problem. He says his
model represents 4‾
13 . What is his error?

Look at the way Oscar solved this Draw a correct model and solve
problem. Find and describe his error. the problem.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (tr) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
So, each of the 4 girls will get _ marbles

and _ marble will be left over.

166 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

LESSON 4.1
Name
Practice and Homework
Investigate Remainders
Go Online
Interactive Examples

Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
1. 13 ÷ 4 2. 24 ÷ 7 3. 39 ÷ 5 4. 36 ÷ 8
1
3_
4
__ __ __ __

5. 6‾
27 6. 25 ÷ 9 7. 3‾
17 8. 26 ÷ 4

__ __ __ __

Divide. Draw a quick picture to help.

9. 14 ÷ 3 10. 5‾
29

Problem Solving Real

World
11. Noe drew the following model and said it 12. WRITE Math Describe a real-life
represented the problem 21 ÷ 4. Is Noe’s situation where you would have a remainder.
model correct? If so, what is the quotient
and remainder? If not, what is the correct
quotient and remainder?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Chapter 4 • Lesson 1 167

Lesson Check
13. What is the quotient and remainder 14. What is the remainder in the division
for 32 ÷ 6? problem modeled below?

Spiral Review
15. Each kit to build a castle contains 235 parts. 16. In 2019, the population of Alaska was about
How many parts are in 4 of the kits? 731,545. What is this number written in
word form?

17. At the theater, one section of seats has 18. What partial products are shown by the
8 rows with 12 seats in each row. In the model below?
center of each of the first 3 rows are 4
broken seats that cannot be used. How 30 4
many seats can be used in the section?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

10

168 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

CHAPTER 4

Name Lesson 2
Florida’s B.E.S.T.
Interpret Remainders ● Number Sense & Operations 4.NSO.2.4,
4.NSO.2.5
I Can interpret remainders in a division problem. ● Algebraic Reasoning 4.AR.1.1
● Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
MTR.3.1, MTR.4.1, MTR.5.1, MTR.6.1,
MTR.7.1
UNLOCK the Problem Real
World
Tauret has some leftover wallpaper 73 inches long. She
wants to cut it into 8 pieces to use around the photos in
her scrapbook. Each piece will have equal length. How
long will each piece be?

When you solve a division problem with a remainder, the

way you interpret the remainder depends on the situation
and the question.

One Way Write the remainder as a fraction.

The divisor is _ pieces.

The __ is 73 inches.
9 r1
Divide to find the quotient and remainder. Remember
8‾
73
You can use multiples,
The remainder represents 1 inch left over, which can also counters, or draw a quick
be divided into 8 equal parts and written as a fraction. picture to divide.
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (r) ©Martin Carlsson/Alamy Images

remainder
_________ =
divisor _

Write the quotient with the remainder written as a fraction. _

So, each piece will be _ inches long.

Try This!
Rico made 32 ounces of soup for 5 people. How many
ounces will each person get? Complete the division.

Math
____
MTR Engage in discussions on
5‾
32 Talk 4.1 mathematical thinking.
Explain what the 2 in the
Each person gets _ ounces. answer represents.

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 • Lesson 2 169

Other Ways
A Use only the quotient.

Binh is a tour guide at a glass-blowing studio. He can take

no more than 7 people at a time on a tour. If 80 people
want to see the glass-blowing demonstration, how many
groups of 7 people will Binh show around?

First, divide to find the quotient and remainder.

Then, decide how to use the quotient and remainder.

The quotient is _ . 11 r
7‾
80
The remainder is _ .

Binh can give tours to 7 people at a time. The quotient is the

number of tour groups of exactly 7 people he can show around.

So, Binh gives tours to _ groups of 7 people.

B Add 1 to the quotient.

If Binh gives tours to all 80 people, how many tours will he give?
A tour can have no more than 7 people. To show all 80 people
around, Binh will have to give 1 more tour.

So, Binh will give _ tours in all for 80 people.

C Use only the remainder.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (t) ©Rob Walls/Alamy Images
Binh gives tours to all 80 people. After he completes the tours
for groups of 7 people, how many people are in his last tour?

The remainder is 3. Math MTR Use patterns and

Talk 5.1 structure.
So, Binh’s last tour will have _ people.
Why would you not write
the remainder as a fraction
when you found the number
Try This! of vans needed?

Students are driven to soccer games in vans. Each van holds

9 students. How many vans are needed for 31 students?

Divide. 31 ÷ 9 _

Since there are _ students left over, _ vans are needed

to carry 31 students.

170 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name

Share and Show Math

Board

1. Swati baked 53 mini-loaves of banana bread to be sliced for snacks

at a craft fair. She will place an equal number of loaves in
6 different locations. How many loaves will be at each location?
a. Divide to find the quotient and remainder.
r
b. Decide how to use the quotient and remainder 6‾
53
to answer the question.

Interpret the remainder to solve.

2. What if Swati wants to put only whole loaves 3. Ed carves 22 small wooden animals to sell at
at each location? How many loaves will be at the craft fair. He displays them in rows with
each location? 4 animals in a row. How many animals will
not be in equal rows?

On Your Own
Interpret the remainder to solve.
5. Juan has a piano recital next
4. Myra has a 17-foot roll of crepe paper to
month. Last week he
make 8 streamers to decorate for a party. on the
practiced for 8 hours in the Spot
How long will each streamer be if she
morning and 7 hours in
cuts the roll into equal pieces?
the afternoon. Each practice
session is 2 hours long. How
many full practice sessions
did Juan complete?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

6. A total of 25 students sign up to be hosts on Parent’s Night. Teams

of 3 students greet parents. How many students cannot be on a
team? Explain.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 2 171

Problem Solving · Applications Real
World
Use the picture for 7–9.
7. Teresa is making sock puppets just like the one in the picture.
If she has 53 buttons, how many puppets can she make?

8. Write a question about Teresa and the sock puppets for

which the answer is 3. Explain the answer.

9. MTR How many more buttons will Teresa need if she wants to
make 12 puppets? Explain.
Show the Math
Demonstrate Your Thinking

10. A total of 56 students signed up to play in a flag

football league. If each team has 10 students, how many more
students will need to sign up so all of the students can be on
a team?

11. A teacher plans for groups of her students to eat lunch

at tables. She has 34 students in her class. Each group
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

will have 7 students. How many tables will she need?

Explain how to use the quotient and remainder to answer
the question.

172 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

LESSON 4.2
Name
Practice and Homework
Interpret Remainders
Go Online
Interactive Examples

Interpret the remainder to solve.

1. Hakeem has 100 tomato plants. He wants Think: 100 ÷ 8 is 12 with a remainder of 4.
to plant them in rows of 8. How many full The question asks “how many full rows,” so
rows will he have? use only the quotient.

12 full rows

2. A teacher has 27 students in her class. 3. A sporting goods company can ship
She asks the students to form as many 6 footballs in each carton. How many
groups of 4 as possible. How many cartons are needed to ship 75 footballs?
students will not be in a group?

Problem Solving Real

World
4. Salena has 70 beads. She uses 8 beads 5. A teacher wants to give 3 markers to each of
for each bracelet. She makes as many her 25 students. Markers come in packages
bracelets as possible. How many beads of 8. How many packages of markers will the
will Salena have left over? teacher need?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

6. WRITE Math Write word problems that represent each way

you can use a remainder in a division problem. Include solutions.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 2 173

Lesson Check
7. Hisoka sorts his 85 baseball cards into 8. A minivan can hold up to 7 people. How
stacks of 9 cards each. How many stacks many minivans are needed to take
of 9 cards can Hisoka make? 45 people to a basketball game?

Spiral Review
9. Mrs. Wilkerson cut some oranges into 10. A school bought 32 new desks. Each desk
20 equal pieces to be shared equally by 6 cost $24. Estimate how much the school
friends. How many pieces did each person spent on the new desks.
get and how many pieces were left over?

11. Kris has a box of 8 crayons. Sylvia’s box has 12. Yesterday, 1,743 people visited the fair.
6 times as many crayons as Kris’s box. How Today, there are 576 more people at the fair
many crayons are in Sylvia’s box? than yesterday. How many people are at the
fair today?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

174 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

CHAPTER 4

Name Lesson 3
Florida’s B.E.S.T.
Divide Tens, Hundreds, and Thousands ● Number Sense & Operations 4.NSO.2.4,
4.NSO.2.1
I Can use place value to divide a whole number up to ● Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
MTR.2.1, MTR.4.1, MTR.5.1, MTR.6.1
four digits by a one-digit whole number.

UNLOCK the Problem Real

World

Dustin is packing apples in gift boxes. Each gift box

holds 4 apples. How many boxes can Dustin pack with
120 apples?

You can divide using basic facts and place value.

Example 1 Divide. 120 ÷ 4

STEP 1 Identify the basic fact. 12 ÷ 4

STEP 2 Use place value. 120 = _ tens

STEP 3 Divide. 12 tens ÷ 4 = _ tens → Think: 4 × 3 tens = 12 tens

=_
120 ÷ 4 = 30

So, Dustin can pack _ boxes.

Example 2 Divide. 1,200 ÷ 4

STEP 1 Identify the basic fact. 12 ÷ 4

STEP 2 Use place value. 1,200 = _ hundreds

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: ©HMH

STEP 3 Divide. 12 hundreds ÷ 4 = _ hundreds → Think: 4 × 3 hundreds =

12 hundreds
=_
1,200 ÷ 4 = 300 Math MTR Engage in discussions on
Talk 4.1 mathematical thinking.
What pattern do you notice
• MTR Explain how to use a basic fact and place value in the place value of the
to divide 4,000 ÷ 5. dividends and quotients?

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 • Lesson 3 175

Share and Show Math
Board
Math MTR Engage in discussions on
1. Divide. 2,800 ÷ 7 Talk 4.1 mathematical thinking.
What basic fact can you use? __ How are Problems 1 and
2 alike and how are they
2,800 = 28 __ different?

28 hundreds ÷ 7 = __

2,800 ÷ 7 = __

2. Divide. 280 ÷ 7

What basic fact can you use? __

280 = 28 __

28 tens ÷ __ = 4 __

280 ÷ 7 = __

Use basic facts and place value to find the quotient.

3. 360 ÷ 6 = _ 4. 2,000 ÷ 5 = _ 5. 4,500 ÷ 9 = _

On Your Own
Use basic facts and place value to find the quotient.

6. 560 ÷ 8 = _ 7. 6,400 ÷ 8 = _ 8. 3,500 ÷ 7 = _

MTR Find the unknown number.

9. 420 ÷ ■ = 60 _ 10. ■ ÷ 4 = 30 _ 11. 810 ÷ ■ = 90 _

12. Divide 400 ÷ 4. Explain how patterns and place value can help.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

13. Eileen collected 98 empty cans to recycle, 14. It costs a baker $18 to make a small cake. He
and Carl collected 82 cans. They packed sells 8 small cakes for $240. How much more
an equal number of cans into each of three is the selling price of each cake than the
boxes to take to the recycling center. How cost?
many cans were in each box?

176 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name

Problem Solving · Applications Real

World
15. Jamal put 600 pennies into 6 equal rolls. How many
pennies were in each roll?

16. Sela has 6 times as many coins now as she had

4 months ago. If Sela has 240 coins now, how many
coins did she have 4 months ago?

17. Chip collected 2,090 dimes. Sue collected 1,910 dimes.

on the
They divided all their dimes into 8 equal stacks. How Spot
many dimes are in each stack?

18. MTR Mr. Roberts sees a rare 1937 penny. The cost
of the penny is $210. If he saves $3 each week, will
Mr. Roberts have enough money to buy the penny
in one year? Explain. Show the Math
Demonstrate
Demonstrate Your
Your Thinking
Thinking
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (t) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

19. Mrs. Fletcher bought 5 coins for $32 each. Later, she sold
all the coins for $300. How much more did Mrs. Fletcher
receive for each coin than she paid? Explain.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 3 177

20. Which quotients are equal to 20? Mark all that apply.

A 600 ÷ 2 D 140 ÷ 7

B 1,200 ÷ 6 E 500 ÷ 5

C 180 ÷ 9

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (tcr) ©Dorling Kindersley/Alamy, (tr) ©Universal Images Group Limited/Alamy, (bcr) ©Airborne Images/Alamy, (br) ©Arco Images GmbH/AlamyAlamy
Cross-Curricular: Science

Insect Flight Insect Wing Beats in 3 Minutes

Approximate
True flight is shared only by insects, bats, and birds. Insect number of wing beats
Flight in insects varies from the clumsy flight of aeschnid
6,900
some beetles to the acrobatic moves of dragonflies. dragonfy

The wings of insects are not moved by muscles damselfy 2,700

attached to the wings. Muscles in the middle part large white

of the body, or thorax, move the wings. The thorax 2,100
butterfy
changes shape as the wings move. scorpion
5,000
fy

21. About how many times do a damselfly’s wings beat in

1 minute?

22. About how many times do a scorpion fly’s wings beat in

6 minutes?

23. In one minute, about how many more times do

a damselfly’s wings beat than a large white butterfly’s wings?

24. The answer is about 2,300 times. What’s the question?

178 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

LESSON 4.3
Name
Practice and Homework
Divide Tens, Hundreds, and Thousands
Go Online
Interactive Examples

Use basic facts and place value to find the quotient.

1. 3,600 ÷ 4 = _900
_
Think: 3,600 is 36 hundreds.
Use the basic fact 36 ÷ 4 = 9.
So, 36 hundreds ÷ 4 = 9 hundreds, or 900.

2. 240 ÷ 6 = __ 3. 5,400 ÷ 9 = __ 4. 300 ÷ 5 = __

5. 4,800 ÷ 6 = __ 6. 420 ÷ 7 = __ 7. 150 ÷ 3 = __

8. 6,300 ÷ 7 = __ 9. 1,200 ÷ 4 = __ 10. 360 ÷ 6 = __

Problem Solving Real

World
11. At an assembly, 180 students sit in 12. Hilary can read 560 words in 7 minutes.
9 equal rows. How many students sit How many words can Hilary read in
in each row? 1 minute?

13. A company produces 7,200 gallons of 14. An airplane flew 2,400 miles in 4 hours.
bottled water each day. The company puts If the plane flew the same number of miles
8 one-gallon bottles in each carton. How each hour, how many miles did it fly in
many cartons are needed to hold all the 1 hour?
one-gallon bottles produced in one day?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

15. WRITE Math Explain how your knowledge of place value helps
you divide a number in the thousands by whole numbers to 10.
Give an example to support your explanation.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 3 179

Lesson Check
16. A baseball player hits a ball 360 feet to the 17. Sebastian rides his bike 2,000 meters
outfield. It takes the ball 4 seconds to travel in 5 minutes. How many meters does
this distance. How many feet does the ball he bike in 1 minute?
travel in 1 second?

Spiral Review
18. A full container of juice holds 64 fluid 19. Paolo pays $244 for 5 identical calculators.
ounces. How many 7-fluid-ounce servings About how much does Paolo pay for one
of juice are in a full container? calculator?

20. A football team paid $28 per jersey. They 21. Suzanne bought 50 apples at the apple
bought 16 jerseys. How much money did orchard. She bought 4 times as many red
the team spend on jerseys? apples as green apples. How many more red
apples than green apples did Suzanne buy?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

180 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

CHAPTER 4

Name Lesson 4
Florida’s B.E.S.T.
Estimate Quotients Using ● Number Sense & Operations 4.NSO.2.4,

Compatible Numbers 4.NSO.2.5

● Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
MTR.2.1, MTR.3.1, MTR.4.1, MTR.5.1,
MTR.6.1, MTR.7.1
I Can use estimation to help solve division problems.

UNLOCK the Problem Real

World
A horse’s heart beats 132 times in 3 minutes.
About how many times does it beat in 1 minute?

You can use compatible numbers to estimate quotients.

Compatible numbers are numbers that are

easy to compute mentally.

Example 1 Estimate. 132 ÷ 3

STEP 1 Find a number close to 132 that divides STEP 2 Use place value.
easily by 3. Use basic facts.
120 = _ tens
12 ÷ 3 is a basic fact. 120 divides easily by 3.
12 ÷ 3 = _
15 ÷ 3 is a basic fact. 150 divides easily by 3.
12 tens ÷ 3 =_ tens
Think: Choose 120 because it is closer to 132.
120 ÷ 3 = _

So, a horse’s heart beats about _ times a minute.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: ((tr) ©Vasyl Syniuk/Shutterstock

Example 2 Use compatible numbers to find two

estimates that the quotient is between. 1,382 ÷ 5

STEP 1 Find two numbers close to 1,382 STEP 2 Divide each number by 5. Use place value.
that divide easily by 5.
1,000 ÷ 5
_ ÷ 5 is a basic fact.
1,000 divides easily by 5. _ hundreds ÷ 5 = _ hundreds, or _
_ ÷ 5 is a basic fact. 1,500 ÷ 5
1,500 divides easily by 5.

1,382 is between _ and _. _ hundreds ÷ 5 = _ hundreds, or _

So, 1,382 ÷ 5 is between _ and _ .

Math MTR Assess the reasonableness
Talk 6.1 of solutions.
Explain which estimate you
think is more reasonable.

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 • Lesson 4 181

Share and Show Math
Board

1. Estimate. 1,718 ÷ 4 Think: What number close to 1,718 is easy to divide by 4?

_ is close to 1,718. What basic fact can you use? _ ÷ 4

_ is close to 1,718. What basic fact can you use? _ ÷ 4

Choose 1,600 because ______ ___.

16 ÷ 4 = _ Math MTR Demonstrate understanding

Talk 2.1 in multiple ways.
1,600 ÷ _ = _
How might your estimate
1,718 ÷ 4 is about _. change if the problem were
1,918 ÷ 4?

Use compatible numbers to estimate the quotient.

2. 455 ÷ 9 3. 1,509 ÷ 3 4. 176 ÷ 8 5. 2,795 ÷ 7

__ __ __ __

On Your Own
Use compatible numbers to find two estimates
that the quotient is between.

6. 5,321 ÷ 6 7. 1,765 ÷ 6 8. 1,189 ÷ 3 9. 2,110 ÷ 4

__ __ __ __

MTR Estimate to compare. Write <, >, or =.

10. 613 ÷ 3 581 ÷ 2 11. 364 ÷ 4 117 ÷ 6 12. 2,718 ÷ 8 963 ÷ 2

estimate estimate estimate estimate estimate estimate

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

13. If Cade shoots 275 free throws in 2 hours, 14. Mark each equation as true or false.
about how many can he shoot in 5 hours?
a. 280 ÷ 7 = 2,000 ÷ 5
● true ● false
b. 450 ÷ 9 = 250 ÷ 5
● true ● false

182 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name

Problem Solving · Applications Real

World

Use the table for 15–17.

Animal Heartbeats in 5 Minutes
15. About how many times does a chicken’s Animal Number of heartbeats
heart beat in 1 minute? whale 31
cow 325
pig 430
16. About how many times does a cow’s heart dog 520
beat in 2 minutes? chicken 1,375

17. MTR About how many times as fast does a

cow’s heart beat as a whale’s? Show the Math
Demonstrate Your Thinking

18. Martha had 154 stamps and her sister

had 248 stamps. They combined their
collections and put the stamps in an
on the
album. If they want to put 8 stamps Spot
on each page, about how many pages
would they need?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: ((tr) ©Arco Images Gmbh/Alamy

19. Jaime and his two brothers divided a package

of 125 toy cars equally. About how many cars
did each of them receive?

20. Harold and his brother collected 2,019 cans over a 1-year period. Each
boy collected the same number of cans. About how many cans did each
boy collect? Explain how you found your answer.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 4 183

Cross-Curricular: Reading

Cause and Effect Bike Shop Layaway Plans

Plan A 3 months
The reading skill cause and effect can help you understand (3 equal payments)
how one detail in a problem is related to another detail. Plan B 6 months
(6 equal payments)
Chet wants to buy a new bike that costs $276. Chet
mows his neighbor’s lawn for $15 each week. Since
Chet does not have money saved, he needs to decide
which layaway plan he can afford to buy the new bike.

Cause: Effect:
Chet does not have Chet will have to decide
money saved to which layaway plan he can
purchase the bike. afford to purchase the bike.

Which plan should Chet choose?

3-month layaway: 6-month layaway:

$276 ÷ 3 $276 ÷ 6

Estimate. Estimate.

$270 ÷ 3 __ per month $300 ÷ 6 __ per month

Chet earns $15 each week. Since there are usually 4 weeks
in a month, multiply to see which payment he can afford.

$15 × 4 = __

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (tr) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
So, Chet can afford the __ layaway plan.

Use estimation to solve.

21. Sofia wants to buy a new bike that costs 22. WRITE Math Describe a situation
$214. Sofia helps her grandmother with when you have used cause and effect to
chores each week for $18. Estimate to find help you solve a math problem.
which layaway plan Sofia should choose
and why.

184 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

LESSON 4.4
Name
Practice and Homework
Estimate Quotients Using
Go Online
Compatible Numbers Interactive Examples

Use compatible numbers to estimate the quotient.

1. 389 ÷ 4 2. 358 ÷ 3 3. 784 ÷ 8 4. 179 ÷ 9

_ ÷ 4 =_
400 _ 100 ___ ___ ___

5. 315 ÷ 8 6. 2,116 ÷ 7 7. 4,156 ÷ 7 8. 474 ÷ 9

___ ___ ___ ___

Use compatible numbers to find two estimates that

the quotient is between.
9. 1,624 ÷ 3 10. 2,593 ÷ 6 11. 1,045 ÷ 2 12. 1,754 ÷ 9

Problem Solving Real

World
13. A grocery store sold 2,267 bananas in 7 days. 14. Kale has 731 books. He puts about the same
About the same number of bananas were number of books on each of 9 shelves in his
sold each day. About how many bananas did bookcase. About how many books are on
the store sell each day? each shelf?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

15. WRITE Math How can you estimate 1,506 ÷ 2 so that it is close
to the actual answer of 753?

Chapter 4 • Lesson 4 185

Lesson Check
16. Jamal is planting seeds for a garden nursery. 17. Chiyo purchased a set of vintage beads.
He plants 9 seeds in each container. If Jamal There are 2,140 beads in the set. If she
has 296 seeds to plant, about how many uses the beads to make bracelets that have
containers will he use? 7 beads each, about how many bracelets
can she make?

Spiral Review
18. A train traveled 360 miles in 6 hours. How 19. An orchard has 12 rows of pear trees. Each
many miles per hour did the train travel? row has 15 pear trees. How many pear trees
are there in the orchard?

20. Lena rounded 366,458 to 370,000. To which 21. Mr. Jessup, an airline pilot, flies
place did Lena round the number? 1,350 miles a day. How many miles will he
fly in 8 days?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

186 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

CHAPTER 4

Name Lesson 5
Florida’s B.E.S.T.
Division and the Distributive Property ● Number Sense & Operations 4.NSO.2.1,
4.NSO.2.5, 4.NSO.2.4
I Can use the Distributive Property to help solve ● Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
MTR.1.1, MRT.2.1, MTR.5.1
division problems.

Investigate
Materials ■ color pencils ■ grid paper
You can use a model and the Distributive Property to break
apart numbers to make them easier to divide.

To use the Distributive Property with division, find the quotient

each smaller rectangle represents. Then find the sum of the
quotients.

A. Outline a rectangle on a grid to model 69 ÷ 3.

Shade columns of 3 until you have

69 squares.

How many groups of 3 can you make? _

B. Think of 69 as 60 + 9. Break apart the model into

two rectangles to show ( 60 + 9 ) ÷ 3. Label and shade the
smaller rectangles. Use two different colors.

C. Each rectangle models a division.

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Credits: (r) ©Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

69 ÷ 3 = ( _ ÷ 3 ) + ( _ ÷ 3 )

=_+_

=_

D. Outline another model to show 68 ÷ 4.

How many groups of 4 can you make? _

E. Think of 68 as 40 + 28. Break apart the model,

label, and shade to show two divisions.

68 ÷ 4 = ( _ ÷ 4 ) + ( _ ÷ 4 )

=_+_

=_

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 • Lesson 5 187

Draw Conclusions
1. Explain how each small rectangle models a quotient and a
product in Step C.

2. Compare your answer in Step A to the final quotient in Step C.

What can you conclude?

3. To find the quotient 91 ÷ 7, would you break

up the dividend into 90 + 1 or 70 + 21? Explain.

NMake Connections Math MTR Use patterns and

Talk 5.1 structure.
You can model 68 ÷ 4 using Describe another way you
base-ten blocks. could use the Distributive
Property to solve 68 ÷ 4.
STEP 1 Model 68.

68 = _ + _

STEP 2 Share the tens equally among 4 groups

with 2 tens left. Regroup 2 tens as 20 ones.
Share them equally among the 4 groups.
60 ÷ 4 = _
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

STEP 3 Share the 8 ones equally among

the 4 equal groups.

8÷4=_

So, 68 ÷ 4 = ( 60 ÷ 4 ) + ( 8 ÷ 4 ) = _ + _ = _

188 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name

Share and Show Math

Board

Model the division on the grid.

1. 26 ÷ 2 = ( _ ÷ 2 ) + ( _ ÷ 2 ) 2. 45 ÷ 3 = ( _ ÷ 3 ) + ( _ ÷ 3 )

=_+_ =_+_

=_ =_

Find the quotient.

3. 86 ÷ 2 4. 208 ÷ 4

= (_ ÷ 2) + (_ ÷ 2) = (_ ÷ 4) + (_ ÷ 4)

=_+_ =_+_

=_ =_

Use base-ten blocks to model the quotient.

Then record the quotient.

5. 88 ÷ 4 = _ 6. 36 ÷ 3 = _ 7. 186 ÷ 6 = _

On Your Own
8. WRITE Math Explain how you 9. Justin earned $50 mowing lawns and $34
can model finding quotients using the washing cars. He wants to divide his money
Distributive Property. into 3 equal accounts. How much will he put
in each account? Explain.
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Chapter 4 • Lesson 5 189

10. Christelle went to a gift shop.
The shop sells candles in a variety
of sizes and colors. The picture
on the
shows a display of candles. Spot
Write a problem that can be
solved using the picture.

Pose a problem. Solve your problem.

• MTR Describe how you could change the problem by changing

the number of rows of candles. Then solve the problem.

11. For 11a–11d, do the given expressions represent a way to break apart 147 ÷ 7?
Choose Yes or No.
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

11a. (135 ÷ 7) + (10 ÷ 7) ● Yes ● No

11b. (147 ÷ 3) + (147 ÷ 4) ● Yes ● No

11c. (140 ÷ 7) + (7 ÷ 7) ● Yes ● No

11d. (70 ÷ 7) + (77 ÷ 7) ● Yes ● No

190 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

LESSON 4.5
Name
Practice and Homework
Division and the Distributive Property
Go Online
Interactive Examples

Find the quotient.

1. 54 ÷ 3 = (_30
_ ÷ 3) + (_24
_ ÷ 3)
10 8
=_10
_+_8
_
3
=_18
_

2. 81 ÷ 3 = __ 3. 232 ÷ 4 = __ 4. 305 ÷ 5 = __

5. 246 ÷ 6 = __ 6. 69 ÷ 3 = __ 7. 477 ÷ 9 = __

Problem Solving Real

World
8. Cecily picked 219 apples. She divided 9. Jordan has 260 basketball cards. He
the apples equally into 3 baskets. How divides them into 4 equal groups. How
many apples are in each basket? many cards are in each group?

10. The Wilsons drove 324 miles in 6 hours. 11. Phil has 189 stamps to put into his stamp
If they drove the same number of miles album. He puts the same number of stamps
each hour, how many miles did they drive on each of 9 pages. How many stamps does
in 1 hour? Phil put on each page?
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

12. WRITE Math Explain how to use the Distributive

Property to solve 48 ÷ 3. Include a model to support
your explanation.

Chapter 4 • Lesson 5 191

Lesson Check
13. A landscaping company planted 176 trees 14. Arnold can do 65 push-ups in 5 minutes.
in 8 equal rows in the new park. How many How many push-ups can he do in
trees did the company plant in each row? 1 minute?

Spiral Review
15. Last Saturday, there were 1,486 people at 16. Nancy walked 50 minutes each day for
the Cineplex. There were about the same 4 days last week. Gillian walked 35 minutes
number of people in each of the 6 theaters. each day for 6 days last week. How does the
Between which two numbers does the total number of minutes that Gillian walked
number of people in each theater fall? compare to the total number of minutes
that Nancy walked?

17. Three boys share 28 toy cars equally. How 18. An airplane flies at a speed of 474 miles per
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

many cars did each boy get and how many hour. How many miles does the plane fly in
were left over? 5 hours?

192 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Chapter

4
Name

Chapter Review
1. What is the remainder in the division problem modeled below?

2. Divide. Complete the picture to help.

24 ÷ 5

3. Look at the model. What division does it show?

_÷_→__

4. For problems 4a–4d, choose Yes or No to tell whether the division

expression has a remainder.
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

4a. 28 ÷ 4 ● Yes ● No

4b. 35 ÷ 2 ● Yes ● No

4c. 40 ÷ 9 ● Yes ● No

4d. 45 ÷ 5 ● Yes ● No

Go Online For more help Chapter 4 193

5. A park guide plans the swan boat rides for 40 people. Each boat
can carry 6 people at a time. What is the best way to interpret the
remainder in this situation so that everyone gets a ride?

6. Nolan divides his 88 toy cars into boxes. Each box holds 9 cars.
How many boxes does Nolan need to store all of his cars?

_ boxes

7. A group of 140 tourists are going on a tour. The tour guide rents
15 vans. Each van holds 9 tourists.

Part A
Write a division problem that can be used to find the number of
vans needed to carry the tourists. Then solve.

Part B
What does the remainder mean in the context of the problem?

Part C
How can you use your answer to determine if the tour guide
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

rented enough vans? Explain.

194 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name
8. Solve.

3,200 ÷ 8 = _

9. Which quotients are equal to 300? Mark all that apply.

A 1,200 ÷ 4 C 2,400 ÷ 8 E 90 ÷ 3

B 180 ÷ 9 D 2,100 ÷ 7 F 3,000 ÷ 3

10. Margo estimated 188 ÷ 5 to be between 30 and 40. Which basic

facts did she use to help her estimate? Mark all that apply.

A 10 ÷ 5 B 15 ÷ 5 C 20 ÷ 5 D 25 ÷ 5

11. Mathias and his brother divided 2,029 marbles equally. About how
many marbles did each of them receive?

12. For 12a–12d, choose Yes or No to show how to use the

Distributive Property to break apart the dividend
to find the quotient 132 ÷ 6.

12a. (115 ÷ 6) + (17 ÷ 6) ● Yes ● No

(100 ÷ 6) + (32 ÷ 6)
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

12b. ● Yes ● No

12c. (90 ÷ 6) + (42 ÷ 6) ● Yes ● No

12d. (72 ÷ 6) + (60 ÷ 6) ● Yes ● No

Chapter 4 195
13. Ishmael has 37 saplings. He wants to plant them in the park in 4
equal rows. How many saplings will he plant in each row? Explain
how you know.

14. Which quotient has a different remainder?

A 16 ÷ 3

B 25 ÷ 3

C 43 ÷ 3

D 56 ÷ 3

15. Alejandro kicks a ball 120 meters to Tao. It takes the ball 6 seconds
to travel from Alejandro to Tao. How many meters does the ball
travel in 1 second? Show your work.
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

196 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4

Name
16. Which model matches each expression? Write the letter in the box
next to the model.

A 61 ÷ 5 B 53 ÷ 6 C 61 ÷ 6 D 53 ÷ 5

17. Volunteers have 67 bags of mulch to use in the flower beds outside the library.
They use the same number of bags of mulch in each of the 8 flower beds.

Part A
How many bags of mulch did the volunteers use in each flower bed? Explain how
you know.

Part B
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

What does the remainder represent?

Chapter 4 197
18. Jacques climbs 3,560 feet in 7 days. Which equation uses
compatible numbers to find the best estimate of the number of
feet he climbs each day?

A 3,500 ÷ 7 = 500

B 3,000 ÷ 5 = 600

C 3,560 ÷ 10 = 356

D 4,000 ÷ 10 = 400

19. Between which two numbers is 4,482 ÷ 6?

300 400 600 700 800

The quotient is between _ and _.

20. Write the missing numbers to show how to use the Distributive
Property to find the quotient.

216 ÷ 4 = (_ ÷ 4) + (_ ÷ 4)

=_+_

=_

21. Amelia reads 568 pages in 8 days. If she read the same number of
pages each day, how many pages did she read in 1 day?

_ pages

22. Te Ayalas drove 275 miles in 5 hours. If they drove the same
number of miles each hour, how many miles did they drive
© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

in 1 hour?

_ miles

198 Florida’s B.E.S.T. Go Math! Grade 4