I never really thought about fractions in my life, but after reading your blog, I see that I use them almost everyday without even thinking about it. Often times I automatically resort to fractions to see how much progress I have made. This happens in running and when I see that I'm almost 1/2 done with the run, I use that to push myself to finish that last half.
Similarly, over the summer I found myself using this subconsciously using fractions to get through the day. During the summer I worked on campus in grounds keeping. It was a long day but after each hour I could mark that I was 1/7 done. With a break at 10:00 and then an hour off for lunch, I would break up the day into thirds rather than sevenths (I would not count the lunch). When it was time for break I would be 1/3 of the way done, then when I was at lunch I would be 2/3 done with the day.
I would also divide up my work into fractions, giving 1/2 of the area we had to rake to my partner and then 1/2 for myself. I would calculate how much I could get done and often times find myself aiming for a specific fraction. An example would be striving myself to finish 1/3 of the weeds by break time so that I could finish another 1/3 by lunch and then hopefully finish up the last third by the end of the day.
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