[muneeryachb]

I am parent, software engineer by profession, trying to teach my son, who is in 3rd grade, fractions. I believe terminology used for describing any concept plays a very critical role in the comprehension of the concepts. I see everyday where simple straight forward concepts are unnecessarily made ambiguous by naming things the wrong way.

When you hear the word fraction, you would understand it as part of a whole. For example: I ate a fraction of the cake. But it is difficult to think naturally that a fraction can also be greater than a whole. If we call quantities less than 1 fractions then for quantities greater than 1 may be we should call them conglomerates (my two cents!!) 🙂

Thanks!!

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