Life of Fred--Goldfish

Chapters

• 1 pg13 the I-need-a-pet stage that five-year-olds go through, finding a pet that everyone is happy, with elapsed time: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. union of sets
• 2 pg19 going crazy about many different things, drawing to scale, solving 3y = 12, digits in a number
• 3 pg25 three 4-inch books make a foot, when you go nuts about something . . ., five meanings of “lifetime guarantee”, concurrent lines, alliteration
• 4 pg31 similes, posting bail, what being pardoned means, showing that 3 × 5 equals 5 × 3
• 5 pg37 not holding grudges, when dolls write up Christmas lists, how multiplication makes our work easier, three $26 lambs = $78
• 6 pg43 don’t wave your money around, the advanced form of Which of These Is Not Like the Others?, spelling coyote, finding patterns in numbers
• 7 pg49 bacteria, keeping your word, picking your friends and a spouse, counting by twenties, polygons, sequences of numbers
• 8 pg55 the crocodile smile, when not to wear an orange shirt, perimeters
• 9 pg61 smoker’s cough, what is worse than having black spots on a lung, north and west, to become really good at anything, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
• 10 pg67 career goals of a fish, making a movie about operating a bowling alley in South Carolina in 1928, definition of an acre
• 11 pg72 venerating auto tools, chocolate bunny eggs, a meter is about 39", the immigrants of Argentina, homonyms: aisle, I’ll, and isle, three kilograms of goldfish food, the animals that do lay eggs
• 12 pg79 dealing with those who lie, lacrimal glands, area of the base of a fish tank, why live in the city—why live in the country, volume of a fish tank
• 13 pg85 7½ gallons = one cubic foot, how much does a gallon of water weigh?, multiplying by 10, writing 4-digit numbers: 5000 or 5,000, multiplying by 100 and by 1,000, a ton of Bow Wow ice cream
• 14 pg91 fish don’t know that multiplication is commutative, anthropomorphizing fish and baseball mitts anthropology, $7.77 for a plant—or three for $24
• 15 97 multiplying 3 × $7.77, decimal point, making estimates
• 16 pg103 seven ways that don’t work, mental work vs. physical work, ordinal numbers, the Tragedy of the Commons, cardinality of a set
• 17 pg109 completing the missing dimensions on a map, being polite without lying, being a fish in a tank vs. a man in a jail cell
• 18 pg115 fish and fountain pens, piano playing can be good for your nerves, three times facts are harder than eight times facts
• 19 121 unhappy with your looks, bar graphs