I'm learning maths and I'm trying to understand division.
What is the correct way to think of 12/4? Is it like red with 12 being cut up into 4 groups and then counting how many are in each group (3)? Or is it like blue with 12 being cut up into groups of 4 and counting how many groups there are (3)?
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Both are valid
This. And I think it's good to visualize it both ways.
You have one cake that is 12 large and cut it into 4 pieces.
OP wants to translate formal language to natural language. Then it's valid both to use 12/4 for "12 large, cut it in 4 pieces" and "12 large, one piece is 4 large, how many pieces?".
>"12 large, one piece is 4 large, how many pieces?".
wat
Low iq midwit, don't reply to my posts.
Reminds me of a joke I learned with Herbert Gross
A guy goes to a pizza parlor, the employee asks if he wants the pizza to be cut in 4 or 8.
Client thinks for a moment, says it better be 4. He isn't sure he can eat 8.
In my head, I always just subtract the number on the right hand side and count how often I had to do that. Keep on practicing and it will soon make sense for you
|12
|6, 6
|3, 3, 3, 3
wat
>Low iq
that's why i made the thread
12 large
4 large
4 large
4 large
total of x large = 12
number of pieces/divisions of 4 large to complete total of 12 large = 3
this is the blue side division
I don't understand the large vocabulary here
it just means size 12 size large it doesnt matter the unit, the unit can be trannies unit a cake 12 trannies large 3 pieces of 4 trannies largr
I usually start by visualizing e/sqrt(2)*i
>What is the correct way to think of 12/4?
According to /our professor/ Herbet Gross, a division problem is actually just a multiplication problem, so you could view it as asking for the number which you must multiply 4 by to get 12
In short, you would represent it by counting 4 three times
12 * 1/4, where 1/4 is the number such that 4 * 1/4 = 1
>What is the correct way to think of 12/4?
12 * 1/4
interesting
why like that
because thats what division is