Life of Fred: Ice Cream

Chapters

• 1 pg13 sweet-smelling sleeping bag, counting by fours, remembering six times eight, stationary vs. stationery, the big question in arithmetic, two-digit multiplication, why a pound of hamburger weighs more than a pound of gold
• 2 pg19 learning up to 30 × 30, roosters and egg-laying, easy way to learn 7 × 8, a clean desktop, sigma notation
• 3 pg25 pronouncing French words that end in t, subtracting ounces from pounds, forestland in the United States, what five-year-olds think is funny vs. what twenty-five-year olds think is funny, what isn’t news, hyperbole isn’t lying
• 4 pg31 bar graphs, letter openers for nine-month-olds, writing formal letters, capitalization in closing salutations, personal letters, elements of a set
• 5 pg37 special delivery emails, why Stan couldn’t fly to Kansas, elapsed time, ordered pairs, first and second coordinates, numbers vs. numerals
• 6 pg43 a ways to do one thing and b ways to do a second imply ab ways to do both, why the times sign (×) is not used in algebra, how to polish leather shoes, subtracting minutes from hours
• 7 pg49 artists looking at a map, war historians looking at a map, mathematicians looking at a map, lovers of cheese looking at a map, historians of literature looking at a map, the promised land vs. Wisconsin, easy way to remember 6 × 9, agitating one’s endoplasmic reticulum, figuring out what “the land of milk and honey” might really have meant, subtracting inches from feet
• 8 pg55 where Cypress is located on a map, Betty’s attempt to get Fred to eat something, 87 flavors and 6 kinds of cones, the cardinality of the set of all ice cream flavors beginning with the Greek letter alpha (α)
• 9 pg61 explicit vs. implicit, Iberian Peninsula, where to find an ibex, two inches ≈ 5 centimeters, selecting an ice cream maker—six questions, seconds, minutes, and hours in the metric system
• 10 pg67 how to find one-half of a large number, how to get ice in the summer in Kansas in 1843, drops, teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces, cups, quarts
• 11 pg73 where not to ride if you can’t fit in the car, graphing ordered pairs, why you shouldn’t park on the sidewalk, subtracting ounces from gallons
• 12 pg79 perimeter of a building when not all the dimensions are given, why math was created, area of a rectangle, a poor way to teach ice cream eating
• 13 pg85 why Stanthony thought Chico Marx was Italian, division by two-digit numbers, speaking ironically, Hooke’s law, slope of a line
• 14 pg91 different scales on a graph, given (40, 3) and (280, 21) and estimating (800, ?), domain and codomain, how many digits should be in a serial number
• 15 pg97 uses for pizza buttons, counting back change, definition of liberty (it doesn’t mean just freedom), ∪ is commutative
• 16 pg103 inequalities: < and >, how to eat pizza after eating a quart of ice cream, homogenized milk, why we use soap, cryogenics, the difference between liquid and superfluid, graph paper for those with lots of casual cash
• 17 pg109 what protein and calcium are good for, subtracting ounces from quarts, expressing remainders as fractions, nothing physical is infinite
• 18 pg115 changing ounces to pounds and ounces, a pizza without calories, changing seconds into minutes and seconds
• 19 pg121 to be jealous and to covet, five gallons of Sluice each day, making estimates using graphing