Celebrating our mathematical thinking

I have the most delicious cake
I want the world to sample
I didn’t have much time to bake
But I think just one
should be ample
All my friends had a laugh
They said it could not be done
But I’ll just keep cutting
my cake in half
Until the whole world
has had some

I cut my cake in half for you
And gave a quarter to him
One eighth went to little Sue
And one sixteenth to Jim

The cake kept shrinking
My friends kept laughing
But I knew just what to do
I simply took what I had left
and cut it into two

At the end of the day
they all had a treat
Ever so small it may be
I smiled at my friends saying
“This was no feat”
Because I knew fractions
were the key