More than one slice

Twenty counters, four equal piles. Make them.

Now push three of the piles together. Count what you have pushed together — and do it before you read on.

Two numbers, two jobs. The bottom one made the pieces; the top one counted how many you took.

Finding $\frac{1}{4}$ of $20$ is sharing twenty between four. Finding $\frac{3}{4}$ of it is that, and then taking three — which is exactly find one unit, then scale it, the move module 6 ended on.

Nothing here is new. Only the way of writing it down.

Nakato did the division and stopped. Five is what one quarter is worth; the question asked for three of them.

Say three quarters as "three of the quarters" and the second step is already in the sentence. A learner who reads it as one lump — "three-quarters" — has nothing to remind them.