:14:03
You had a headache from ``blow pictures'', right...right, Taeko?
:14:13
SIT.
:14:20
Recite the drills from the beginning.
:14:23
Recite the drills...? I'm in the fifth grade now, I know them.
:14:27
If you know the drills, then why did you make those mistakes?
:14:31
Because it's dividing fractions, you know that.
:14:42
All you need to do is switch the numerator with the denominator, and
multiply the fractions. Didn't they teach you this in school?
:14:50
Um..uh-huh.
:14:53
So, then why all the mistakes?!
:14:55
Yae-chan, could you try it step-by-step?
:15:05
...how does ``dividing a fraction BY a fraction'' work, anyway?
:15:08
Huh?
:15:15
Okay, dividing two-thirds of an apple by one fourth--that could mean
you divide two thirds of an apple among four people.
:15:21
How many parts of the apple does a person get, right?
:15:31
Huh....? Um...uh-huh.
:15:33
So then, one, two, three, four, five, and six--so one sixth of an
apple for a single person.
:15:44
...wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. That's MULTIPLYING fractions.
:15:49
Huh...? How come? Does a number become smaller when you multiply it?!
:15:53
Two thirds of an apple divided by a quarter means, uh...