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Author
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book covers beginning mathematics including: Commutative law of multiplication, closed under addition, quarter of an hour, cardinal numbers, d = rt, one trillion, exponents, 1 1/2 = 1 1/2, is this a function?, long division, fractions, remainders, dividing 56382 by 3, changing 82614 feet into yards, three reasons to learn long division, 36 quarters equals how many dollars?, the fur times table, a disadvantage to being married to a calculator,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Life of Fred is a unique, complete (not supplemental), math program that uses a highly engaging narrative to teach math without fear and with enjoyment. Students follow the life of Fred Gauss (a math professor who grows up to the age of six), who has many humorous, unlikely, and zany adventures over the course of the curriculum. Math becomes relevant and important because the need for math occurs in Fred's life (and he sees math everywhere). Witty...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
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