The tenth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series. There are 10 books in the Elementary Series are for grades 1 through 4.
Next use the Life of Fred Intermdiate Series: Kidneys, Liver, and Mineshaft

So, you think math is boring and there is nothing much anyone can do to make it "un-boring"?
You think the average person can't really ever understand math, and "Who needs it?" if you have a calculator in hand!

Think Again!!

Never again hear the question which many math students have: "When are we ever gonna use this stuff?" or "Math is boring!"

No other textbooks are like these. Each text is written in the style of a novel with a humorous story line. Each section tells part of the life of Fred Gauss and how, in the course of his life, he encounters the need for the math and then learns the methods. Tons of solved examples. Each hardcover textbook contains ALL of the material – more than most instructors cover in traditional classroom settings. Includes tons of proofs.

Written by Dr. Stanley Schmidt with the intent to make math come alive with lots of humour, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that stick in the mind. The student will learn to think mathematically.

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-thousandth Power in Three Steps
- Intersection 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
- Subtracting Three Inches from Three Miles

Unlike all other math programs, this one also teaches about:
• Little Babies Can't Fritter Away Their Time
• When the Possessive Case Is Indicated with Just an Apostrophe and No s
• Fred's Seven-word Speech
• The Use of Segues
• Can Dolls Grow Up?
• What Cows Don't Think About
• A Great Way to Rot Your Teeth
• 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
• Nouns
• One Way to Avoid Evil
• 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
• The Fad that Began March 3, 1939
• Fifty Basic Survival Skills
• Monophagous and Monostich
• Epigraphs
• Five Things Your Income Depends On
• The Biggest Happiness Killer
• Incisors
• How to Prove You Are Not a Duck

The answers are included in the textbook.

Dr. Schmidt recommends that all students up to 4th grade start with Apples and work their way through the entire elementary series.

* There are ten books in Elementary Series:
* 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

You are ready to start Life of Fred Elementary when...
1. You can talk in sentences.
2. You are willing to listen to a 5 page story.
3. You can hold a pencil.
4. You can print the digits 0 to 10
5. You know your basic addition and subtraction facts up to 10

See inside Life of Fred Jelly Beans