Life of Fred - Butterflies (Elementary Series)
The second book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series and the second book of Kindergarten material.
Life of Fred is a series of math books that break the old pattern of drill and kill. Instead of nothing but dry exposition and endless drill exercises, they contain fun stories about Fred Gauss, a child prodigy math genius. During his hilarious adventures, he encounters situations that call for solving math problems. Dr. Stanley Schmidt wrote these to make math come alive with humor, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that will make math a fun subject. Your children actually want to read these books. The stories carry on through the exercises, leading the student through them. Many of the books have a series of quizzes called Bridges every few chapters. Passing a quiz means the student is ready for the next chapter. Some books have all the problem solutions in them, while others have separate answer keys or companions. The textbooks are all hardbound, the answer keys are comb-bound.
- Reading 5:10 on a Clock
- Reading 5:55 on a Clock
- Half Past Six
Specific Numbers
- a Dozen
- A Baker’s Dozen
- Trillion, Quadrillion, and Quintillion
- ∞
Types of Numbers
- Ordinal Numbers
- Whole Numbers
- Cardinal Numbers
Geometry
- Collinear
- Perpendicular
Other Math Concepts
- One Yard = 3 Feet
- Numbers that Add to 9
- Counting by twos
- Parentheses and Brackets
- Aleph-null
Other Concepts
- Facts about Butterflies
- Chrysalis vs. Cocoon
- Braces
- Christina Rossetti
- Sheet Music for “But Not Alone”
- Domenico Fetti’s Archimedes Thoughtful
- Exclamation Points
- Bad Things about Sugar
- One Good Thing about Sugar
- Marvin Stone’s Invention of the Paper Straw 1888
- Orion’s Belt
- Betelgeuse
- Why Not Every Three Stars Can Make a Triangle
- Book Signings
- Why You Can Not Walk In a Room
- Deliberate vs. Inadvertent
- How to Say 'Toenail' in German
- Yurts
- a Nebula is Not a Star
- Light Years
- the Alphabet Game
- p.m. (post meridiem)
- Syncope
- Sheet Music for “The Crash of the Bell Tower”
- Quotation Marks inside of Quotation Marks
- Spine of a Book
- Naissance
- Lie vs. Lay
- Kingie’s Brothers
- States that Begin with the Letter M
- Saying Thank You
- Virgil’s Aeneid
- History of Pizza
- How to Set a Table
Click here to see sample pages. To order the first book of kindergarten material click here.
Book Title | Life of Fred - Butterflies (Elementary Series) |
Publisher: | Polka Dot Publishing |
Author | Stan Schmidt |
ISBN |
The second book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series and the second book of Kindergarten material.
Life of Fred is a series of math books that break the old pattern of drill and kill. Instead of nothing but dry exposition and endless drill exercises, they contain fun stories about Fred Gauss, a child prodigy math genius. During his hilarious adventures, he encounters situations that call for solving math problems. Dr. Stanley Schmidt wrote these to make math come alive with humor, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that will make math a fun subject. Your children actually want to read these books. The stories carry on through the exercises, leading the student through them. Many of the books have a series of quizzes called Bridges every few chapters. Passing a quiz means the student is ready for the next chapter. Some books have all the problem solutions in them, while others have separate answer keys or companions. The textbooks are all hardbound, the answer keys are comb-bound.
- Reading 5:10 on a Clock
- Reading 5:55 on a Clock
- Half Past Six
Specific Numbers
- a Dozen
- A Baker’s Dozen
- Trillion, Quadrillion, and Quintillion
- ∞
Types of Numbers
- Ordinal Numbers
- Whole Numbers
- Cardinal Numbers
Geometry
- Collinear
- Perpendicular
Other Math Concepts
- One Yard = 3 Feet
- Numbers that Add to 9
- Counting by twos
- Parentheses and Brackets
- Aleph-null
Other Concepts
- Facts about Butterflies
- Chrysalis vs. Cocoon
- Braces
- Christina Rossetti
- Sheet Music for “But Not Alone”
- Domenico Fetti’s Archimedes Thoughtful
- Exclamation Points
- Bad Things about Sugar
- One Good Thing about Sugar
- Marvin Stone’s Invention of the Paper Straw 1888
- Orion’s Belt
- Betelgeuse
- Why Not Every Three Stars Can Make a Triangle
- Book Signings
- Why You Can Not Walk In a Room
- Deliberate vs. Inadvertent
- How to Say 'Toenail' in German
- Yurts
- a Nebula is Not a Star
- Light Years
- the Alphabet Game
- p.m. (post meridiem)
- Syncope
- Sheet Music for “The Crash of the Bell Tower”
- Quotation Marks inside of Quotation Marks
- Spine of a Book
- Naissance
- Lie vs. Lay
- Kingie’s Brothers
- States that Begin with the Letter M
- Saying Thank You
- Virgil’s Aeneid
- History of Pizza
- How to Set a Table
Click here to see sample pages. To order the first book of kindergarten material click here.