Only now, after having explained how fractions are said and written, does it make any sense to introduce these rather obscure words.
Every text book I have seen explains them as the top and bottom numbers in the fraction. If that is all they are, then why not just call them the top number and the bottom number? In fact, these names mean more than just top and bottom. Actually, they don’t mean top and bottom at all.
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