Life of Fred: Dogs

Chapters

• 1 pg13 1,000,000, the Dance of Life, vertical addition
• 2 pg19 up to 10 + 10, fortnights, digits in a number, less than <, even numbers
• 3 pg25 a call to Disneyland, Middle and Old English, anachronisms, solving x + x = 16
• 4 pg31 Shakespeare—The Canterbury Tales—Beowulf, Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum, numbers that add to 13 1º2º4º8º16º32º . . . all the way up to a hundred doubles, which is 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376
• 5 pg37 a row of practice, 11 + 11, choices in life
• 6 pg43 secret code, definition of function, a party game
• 7 pg49 patterns in stone, thinking clearly, rhyme schemes
• 8 pg55 pupils in sunlight, consecutive numbers
• 9 pg61 bathroom mirror fee, right angles
• 10 pg67 ATMs and bank loans, 560 – 560 = 0, Kingie’s art, constant functions
• 11 pg73 a day without reading, stainless steel library card, cardinality of a set
• 12 pg79 sheet music for “Borrowed Books”, numbers that add to 17, macronutrients
• 13 pg85 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a giant list of dogs, bar graphs, one purpose of childhood
• 14 pg91 reading clocks, adding up thirty 10s, idioms, commutative laws
• 15 pg97 spendthrifts, kid art vs. doll art, adding two-digit numbers
• 16 pg103 art in advertisements, “carrying one” in addition
• 17 pg109 ordinal and cardinal numbers, steering a dog on a leash, returning borrowed money
• 18 pg115 dogs and chess, apartment leases, Kingie hides in his fort, isotopes of hydrogen
• 19 pg121 dog games, when to buy a dog, conversations with dogs, the big reason for having a dog