If you like Numberock videos, you are cordially invited to try out our growing library-of equally engaging digital and printable learning resources FREE for a month: Video Backstory: Deep beneath the ocean waves, where sunlight barely reaches, lived a colossal creature named Godzilla. But this wasn’t the Godzilla you’ve seen in movies—this one had a peculiar obsession: unsimplified fractions! You see, Godzilla’s scales were heavy with the weight of countless fractions that hadn’t yet been converted into simplest form. Each day, he patrolled the murky waters, chasing submarines that carried these burdened calculations. Their hulls were etched with shattered numerators and denominators, like battle scars from forgotten math wars. The submarines darted through the briny underwater stew, their propellers churning. Inside, wide-eyed crew members clung to their calculators, desperate to simplify the fractions before Godzilla caught up. “Reduce! Reduce!” they whispered, dividing numerators and denominators by the same value. The goal: to make those fractions as light as a feather. But was there hope on land? Oh yes! On the shores, numbers catapulted skyward. They shattered sacrificially into fragments for the betterment of fractions and all of fraction-kind — like fragile shards of previously larger unsimplified numbers. Reduced, yes, but not defeated! For even in their simplest forms, while carried the scars of division, the echoes of lost wholes, they were happy. And the children? They watched from cliffs, their eyes wide. They saw the surreal dance of numbers, the battle between Godzilla and the submarines. It was like a math-themed blockbuster movie, with fractions flying toward and over them like fireworks. And in their final simplest form, those fractions whispered a universal truth: We’re all part of something bigger, like pieces of a grand puzzle. So next time you see a simplest-form fraction, remember what they had to go through to become one. And know that even in the scariest of moments, there’s hope—a new beginning waiting to unfold. And never forget that in order to simplify a fraction into simplest form, one needs to divide the numerator (the top number) and the denominator (the bottom number) by the same value until they can no longer be divided into a whole number. Thank you for watching our Simplest Form Song: Simplifying Fractions and learning with us.