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Polka Dot Publishing
Language
English
Description
This book covers beginning mathematics through the stories of Fred's daily life.
"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...
Author
Publisher
Polka Dot Publishing
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
Publisher
Polka Dot Publishing
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
Publisher
Polka Dot Publishing
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!"--
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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!"-- ǂc Amazon.com.
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