Life Of Fred Jelly Beans

"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

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!

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!

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.

How many jelly beans are enough? How many are too many? Aiden and Emma can't decide. Is 10 enough? How about 1,000? That's a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it's only two or three a day. This giant picture book offers kids a fun and easy way to understand large numbers. Starting with 10, each page shows more and more colorful candies, leading up to a big surprise—ONE MILLION JELLY BEANS! With bright illustrations, How Many Jelly Beans? makes learning about big numbers absolutely scrumptious!

"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

The actress and singer explores her life and career, examining "the real flesh-and-blood Shirley Jones, not just the movie star or Mrs. Partridge"--Dust jacket flap.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. After five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson—the iconic NCAA champion, Black activist, and educator—was ready to make the private public at last, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death in the historically tumultuous summer of 2020. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (three Final Fours, four-time national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. What were the origins of the the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. And parting his veil of secrecy, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a D.C. drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes of his years on the Nike board. Thompson’s mother was a teacher who had to clean houses because of racism in the nation's capital. His father could not read or write. Their son grew up to be a man with his own larger-than-life statue in a building that bears his family’s name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved Black people. This is a great American story, and John Thompson’s experience sheds light on many of the issues roiling our nation. In these pages, he proves himself to be the elder statesman whose final words college basketball and the country need to hear. I Came As A Shadow is not a swan song, but a bullhorn blast from one of America’s most prominent sons.