Life of Fred: Jelly Beans
Book 10 of 10 in the Early Elementary Math Sequence, to be started anytime between the 1st and 4th grades depending on the readiness of the reader.
ISBN: 978-1-937032-03-6, hardback, 128 pages
List of Topics Covered:
Little Babies Can’t Fritter Away Their Time, Finding One-third of a Number, Using Fisher’s Exact test, When the Possessive Case Is Indicated with Just an Apostrophe and No s, Prime Numbers, Fibonacci Numbers, Nouns, Fred’s Seven-word Speech, the Use of Segues, Can Dolls Grow Up?, Casting Out Nines, Seven to the One-thousandth Power in Three Steps, What Cows Don’t Think About, a Great Way to Rot Your Teeth, Intersection of Sets, Commutativity of Intersection, the Probability that Fred Will See Betelgeuse Become a Super Nova (the answer: one chance in ten thousand), Why Education Is So Important, Fever vs. Femur, Carburetors, Litotes, One Way to Avoid Evil, Decimal Points, Adding Decimals, Logs, Volume of a Box, Outline of the Plot of the First Three Acts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, English Major vs. Math Major, Résumés, the Pinocchio Paradox, What Is a Tinker, Median Averages, Mean Averages, the Fad that Began March 3, 1939, Fifty Basic Survival Skills, Exponents, Set Subtraction, Reducing Fractions, Milli- and Kilo-, Monophagous and Monostich, Epigraphs, Tally Marks, Pie Charts, Five Things Your Income Depends On, the Biggest Happiness Killer, Mode Average, Subtracting Three Inches from Three Miles, Incisors, How to Prove You Are Not a Duck.
The full 10-book Early Elementary Math Series includes:
- Life of Fred: Apples
- Life of Fred: Butterflies
- Life of Fred: Cats
- Life of Fred: Dogs
- Life of Fred: Edgewood
- Life of Fred: Farming
- Life of Fred: Goldfish
- Life of Fred: Honey
- Life of Fred: Ice Cream
- Life of Fred: Jelly Beans
All books can be started anytime between the 1st and 4th grades depending on the readiness of the reader.