For midnight math tonight, Dad asked Nigel what nine divided by three would be. They had been talking about division a bit, separating quantities out into groups. Dad presented the question as if separating nine apples out among three people, how many could each person have?
First, Nigel guessed the answer was two, but they counted up how many that would be all together and found it to be too few. Next, he guessed four, but that was found to be too many. Then, Nigel said that anything else would be too many, so it had to be three. Excellent deductive logic.
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