The minimum is like the smallest cookie in a jar full of cookies. Imagine you have a jar with different sizes of cookies, and you want to find the smallest one. The smallest cookie is the minimum because it is the tiniest compared to all the others. It’s like saying, ‘This is the least amount of cookie I can have.’ The minimum is special because it’s the starting point, like the first step you take when you start walking.

Think of the minimum as the bottom step on a staircase. If you want to climb up, you need to start at the very bottom. The bottom step is the minimum because it’s the lowest step you can stand on. Without that step, you can’t start climbing the stairs. The minimum is important because it helps us know where to begin.

Imagine a group of kids lining up from shortest to tallest. The shortest kid is the minimum in terms of height. This means that if you look at all the kids, the shortest one is the minimum because no one is shorter than them. The minimum tells us who is the smallest or the least in a group.