(1/3) ÷ 4
Imagine you have one-third of a pizza, and you want to share it equally between four friends. How much does each friend get?
Here's our whole pizza split into three equal parts. The orange piece is one-third.
We start with one-third — one out of three equal parts of the whole pizza.
To share with four friends, we cut that one-third into four equal slices.
Now the orange third has four tiny slices inside it. Each friend gets one slice.
But how big is each slice compared to the whole pizza? Let's cut every third the same way.
The whole pizza now splits into twelve equal pieces — twelfths.
Each friend's slice is one of those twelfths. So each friend gets one-twelfth of the whole pizza.
We write this as: one-third divided by four equals one-twelfth.
One-third divided by four is one-twelfth. Each friend gets a tiny twelfth-slice. Great thinking!