Teachers have little time in class and rarely enough to cover the syllabus, prepare for external assesments, or to do the important stuff like sharing, helping others and being kind (not to mention sun safety, financial literacy and civics). Accordingly, certain things may best be assigned to time out of class, in particular lesson preparation (lucratively re-packaged as "flipped instruction").
Numbers and expressions for things we count pop up in all kinds of unexpected places, and an advanced user should be able to navigate these. Many would have originally been encountered in high school mathematics or science, but if that happened in a language other than English ... Added to that are historical or figurative oddities, and frankly just odd usages, which make English so rich and such a challenge.
Children in the Early Years (or PK - K) are well aware of the parts of things, also known as "fractions", and teachers should take advantage of this awareness to further develop essential concepts of number relationships. Although the examples given relate to English Language Teaching, the philosophy and approaches are developmentally appropriate for programmes in all languages. Lower Primary (G1 - 4) teachers will also find this useful.
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