Life of Fred: ICE CREAM

Life of Fred: ICE CREAM

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 with the Letter Alpha
• Minutes and Hours in the Metric System
• Plotting Points on a Graph
• Perimeter
• The One Reason for Mathematics
• Hooke's Law
• Slope of a Line
• Estimating Using Graphs
• Changing the Scale on a Graph
• Counting Back Change
• The Commutativity of Set Union
• Less Than (<) and Greater Than (>)
• Area of a Rectangle.

Unlike all other math programs, this one also teaches about:
• One Use of Poetry
• Stationery vs. Stationary
• Bibelots
• Forestland in the United States
• Hyperbole
• Business Letters vs. Personal Letters
• Capitalization in Closing Salutations
• Using Honey Cards
• How to Polish Leather Shoes
• Maps as Seen by Artists, War Historians, Mathematicians, Lovers of Cheese, and Literature Historians
• A Poetical Meaning for "the Land of Milk and Honey"
• Endoplasmic Reticulum
• Finding Cyprus on a Map
• Implicit vs. Explicit
• The Two Major Countries on the Iberian Peninsula
• Why You Can't Find an Ibex in Kansas
• How to Have Ice in the Summer in Kansas in 1843
• Improper Use of Seat Belts
• Why You Shouldn't Park on the Sidewalk
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's Painting
• When Eating Ice Cream Can Be Torture
• Irony
• Liberty vs. Freedom
• Homogenized Milk
• Why Use Soap
• Cryogenics
• What You Can Do If You Have Tons of Casual Cash (the answer: buy graph paper)
• Joe's Stomach Has Only Finite Capacity
• Why Brass Braces Are Better Than Regular Braces

The answers are included in the textbook.

• Age Level = 8 and up
• Book Author = Stanley F. Schmidt
• Book Material = Hardback
• Book Publisher = Polka Dot Publishing
• Copyright = c2020
• Grade Level = Elementary
• Condition = New