Life of Fred: Jelly Beans

Life of Fred Elementary Series #10

by Stanley F. Schmidt

10th book in the elementary math series.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction, School, Childrens, Juvenile, Education, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Stanley F. Schmidt is an educator. He began teaching high school teacher at the age of 22, and later taught in a college.

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love these books for bedtime math!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laughing out loud together during homeschool math while building excellent math sense? I'll take it!

[Colette · Rating 4 out of 5]

I pre-read this before my son (age 10) started it. He has loved this series. I felt this book taught some great math and prepared the way to begin fractions next. I even learned about “casting nines,” a concept I knew nothing about. So helpful.

I really like how this series has taught my kids about more advanced concepts that really are simple, but that really threw me off when I got to them in advanced algebra and calculus (for example, sets, functions, and sigma notation).

[Esther May · Rating 3 out of 5]

And we are done! Life of A-J took us on a journey through a week with Fred. We learned somethings, we worried about the decisions that he was making and we laughed. My boys loved these books. Ages 7-13.

[Anna]

This was the last Life of Fred book I checked out. The author’s views promoted in the books were intolerable and not something I wanted to support or continue exposing my child to, even while discussing them with my child as I did through the books he read.

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

We just love LOF books! This one had some very interesting mathematical concepts!

[Brittany Isbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing math book!