Let's say you go to a pot luck dinner and they have three pies (cherry, apple, and pumpkin). Each pie is cut up into four pieces and you have two pieces from each pie. What part of a full pie did you eat in all?
3 * 2 * 1/4 = 6/4 = 1 1/2 You actually ate more than one pie all by yourself!
3 * 6 * 1/8 = 18/8 = 9/4 = 2 1/4 That's a lot of pizza!
Now you get to practice more whole number and fraction multiplication.