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Life of Fred: Edgewood
Written by Dr. Stanley Schmidt with the intent to make math come alive with lots of humor, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that stick in the mind. The student will learn to think mathematically. 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.
$24.00
SKU
B-RM219
Written by Dr. Stanley Schmidt with the intent to make math come alive with lots of humor, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that stick in the mind. The student will learn to think mathematically. 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.
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Life of Fred Edgewood is a hardcover textbook containing 128 pages. This book is not consumable. All answers are written on separate paper or in a notebook. It is designed to be read with the student.
Life of Fred Edgewood contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete.
This book covers beginning mathematics including . . .
- Concurrent Lines
- Parallel Lines
- Trapezoids
- Right Angles
- Functions
- Rhombuses
- Constant Functions
- Median Average
- Writing Larger Numbers with Commas
- Using Logarithms to Solve 2x = 5
- Birdie Rule for Logarithms
- Finding Approximate values for log 5 on a Calculator
- Bar Graphs
- Math Poems
- Greater Than >
- Numbers that Add to 8, 10, and 12
- State Income Tax Rates as Percents
- Parallelograms
- Rows and Columns of a Matrix
- Quarter of an Hour
- Half Dozen
- The Addition Game Using Playing Cards
- Playing Guess-A-Function
- Six Examples of Functions: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Tangent, and Derivative
- What It Means to Matriculate
- and much more . . .
The decision to homeschool our daughter, Alexa, was an easy one. Choosing a curriculum that worked well with her goals and schedule was a little more difficult.
Jenna Henning