Life of Fred: Cats

Chapters

• 1 pg13 2 a.m., Ursa Major (Big Bear), commutative, 9 – 3, 40¢ in nickels, cardinal number of a set
• 2 pg19 a quarter of a pie, a quarter of an hour, a quarter of a dollar, one thousand as a numeral
• 3 pg25 counting by fives to 100, counting by twos, counting by threes, 5v + 4v = 9v
• 4 pg31 what to do with a defective electric heater, pattern of hearts in the snow, deciduous and evergreen
• 5 pg37 sheet music for “Happy”, the four basic emotions, translating purr, purr, purr into English, right angles and orthogonal lines, a dozen plus one
• 6 pg43 Kingie (not equal to)… cat toy, vertical addition, 5 + 4, obligate carnivores, why dogs and people (not equal to)… cats, twenty minutes to three
• 7 pg49 counting by tens to a hundred, a quarter to three, born to hunt
• 8 pg55 Mariana Trench, Ferdinand Magellan, what pacific means, germs and infection
• 9 pg61 avoiding bites, scratches and rabies, treating bites, scratches and rabies, writing complete English sentences
• 10 pg67 taking blood pressure on small arms, WTMD = Way Too Much Detail, why WTMD can be aggravating, different kinds of kitties
• 11 pg73 teaching kitties, vowels, 22 words that don’t contain a vowel, pill boxes in stacks of 10
• 12 pg79 ones, tens, hundreds, decimal and sexagesimal systems, thousands, thousands, millions
• 13 pg85 numbers that add to 13, Morse code, four major oceans of the world
• 14 pg91 century, cents, centenarians, centurion, and percent, homonyms, length, area, volume, prepositions
• 15 pg97 one yard = 36 inches, becoming three inches taller, metric system
• 16 pg103 what can cause a bad mood, countries that aren’t primarily metric, braces, parentheses, and brackets
• 17 pg109 numbers than can be placed into a rectangle, ways to get into a better mood, what mathematicians do
• 18 pg115 prime numbers, why you should take off your pajama top before you put on your shirt, dividing a zillion students in 2 sets, 3 sets, 7 sets
• 19 pg121 Fred thinks of writing a children’s book, 3 < 5