Life Of Fred

If you know your addition and multiplication tables by heart, your next step is to get to know Fred. In this book and the next book (Life of Fred: Decimals) you can learn everything you need to know to begin Algebra!

The idea behind Life of Fred is that if students have an enjoyable experience and have fun doing their math, they will remember it and use it and have a good taste in their math about the whole subject. The sub-title on each of his math books is "As Serious As it Needs to Be". And that is just the point: math doesn't need to be horrid and dry. This is math-just as serious as it needs to be-and I can tell you from my child's smiles and chuckles, that's not very serious at all! As a bonus, these books are very low priced compared to any other math books on the market. (Compare to Saxon at 50-70). If you have a creative child who is languishing on traditional math programs, try Life of Fred! Math, As Serious As it Needs to Be!

The idea behind Life of Fred is that if students have an enjoyable experience and have fun doing their math, they will remember it and use it and have a good taste in their math about the whole subject. The sub-title on each of his math books is "As Serious As it Needs to Be". And that is just the point: math doesn't need to be horrid and dry.

The idea behind Life of Fred is that if students have an enjoyable experience and have fun doing their math, they will remember it and use it and have a good taste in their math about the whole subject. The sub-title on each of his math books is "As Serious As it Needs to Be". And that is just the point: math doesn't need to be horrid and dry. This is math-just as serious as it needs to be-and I can tell you from Louisa's smiles and chuckles, that's not very serious at all! As a bonus, these books are very low priced compared to any other math books on the market. (Compare to Saxon at 50-70). If you have a creative child who is languishing on traditional math programs, try Life of Fred! Math, As Serious As it Needs to Be! If you know your math facts (addition and multiplication) and you can read well, then the next step is to get to know Fred! Beware: This is not a traditional math book. This is a child-directed course. The student reads the adventure story, does the math problems that occur as a natural part of the story, and checks their answers (the solutions are right there for the looking.) And learns to love math in the process! You will not get the detailed formula explanations that you get in a traditional math book. I am still amazed that kids can read the story and learn the concepts, but they do!

Kidneys, Liver and Mineshaft make up the Life of Fred intermediate series. They are designed to be used with a 4th through 6th grade student. They should be used after the student completes Jelly Beans and before he or she completes Fractions--Amazon.

"This book covers beginning mathematics including: finding one-third of a number, using Fisher's Exact test, Prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, Casting out nines, Seven to the one-tthousandth power in three steps, interection of sets, commutativity of intersection, decimal points, adding decimals, logs, median averages, mean averages, exponents, set subtraction, reducing fractions, milli- and kilo-, tally marks, pie charts, mode average, and subtracting three inches from three miles."--Publisher's website

"This book covers beginning mathematics including: the big question in arithmetic, multiplying two-digit numbers, a pound of hamburger weighs more than a pound of gold, the last ten multiplication facts, how to remember 7x8=56, sigma notation, subtracting 12 oz. from 15 lbs., bar graph, ordered pairs, elapsed time, first and second coordinates, why algebra does not use the times sign (x), the cardinality of the set of all ice cream flavors that begin with the letter alpha, minutes and hours in the metric system, plotting points on a graph, perimeter, the one reason for mathematics, hooke's law, slope of a line, estimating using graphs, changing the scale on a graph, counting back change, the commutativity of set union, less than and greater than, area of a rectangle."-- Publisher's website