Quotition and partition
 | This article may be confusing or unclear to readers. (April 2007) |
Quotition is an arithmetic concept that concerns how we look at fractions and division. The key to quotition problem statements is the phrase "how many are in."
Division involves thinking about a whole in terms of its parts. One frequent division notion, a natural number of equal parts, is known as partition to educators. The basic concept behind partition is sharing. In sharing a whole entity becomes an integer number of equal parts. What quotition concerns is explained by removing the word integer in the last sentence. Allow number to be any fraction and you have quotition instead of partition.
A University of Melbourne web page [1] shows what to do when the fraction is a ratio of integers or rational.