The fifth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series; the first book of second-grade material.
MATH CONCEPTS
- 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
- < (less than)
- Numbers that Add to 8
- 10 and 12
- Paralellograms
- Rows and Columns of a Matrix
- Quarter of an Hour
- Half Dozen
- Six Examples of Functions: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Tangent, and Derivative
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OTHER CONCEPTS
- Dangling participles
- Christina Rossetti’s “A Chill”
- Dealing with Troubles
- Facing Things You Don’t Want to Do
- Tripoli
- Eritrea
- Math Poems
- Couplets in Poetry
- Strait does not mean Straight
- Judging People by their Size
- If Fred Were an Author
- Population of the Earth
- State Income Tax Rates as Percents
- Definition of Polka Dots
- the Four Kinds of Sentences: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamation
- Pronouns
- Importance of Seat Belts
- Small, Medium, and Large Mistakes
- Busted vs. Broken
- Gibbous Moons
- Dusk
- Two Kinds of Knowledge Errors
- Firearm Safety
- Symptoms of Hypothermia
- Voluntary and Involuntary Actions of the Body
- Lorentz Contraction
- International Date Line
- Treatment of Hypothermia
- the Addition Game Using Playing Cards
- Alright Is Not a Word
- Playing Guess-A-Function
- One Way to Feel Lonely
- What It Means to Matriculate