Life of Fred: Jelly Beans

Chapters

• 1 pg13 dealing with deadlines, Fred begins his speech, why babies can’t fritter their time, finding a third of a number
• 2 pg19 a look ahead to advanced algebra, a look ahead to Fisher’s Exact test in statistics, adding an apostrophe to indicate the possessive case, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers
• 3 pg25 Fred’s seven-word speech, mysteries of life, why segues in speech are important, functions, domains, and codomains, why 9296292399773472234292614 is not prime
• 4 pg31 casting out nines, evaluating 71000 in three steps, the next prime number after 29
• 5 pg37 pizza-making robots, being—and not doing, why you shouldn’t fall asleep with jelly beans in your mouth, union and intersection of sets, one billion as a numeral is the intersection of sets, commutative, what A ∪ B = A ∩ B implies 9
• 6 pg44 The probability of seeing Betelgeuse become a super nova, divisor, dividend, quotient, you can’t think deeply with a small vocabulary, why education is important, what carburetors do
• 7 pg49 litotes C. C. Coalback escapes from jail twice in two days, what to do if you meet a griffin, decimal points, five kinds of *, counting money is different than counting back change
• 8 pg55 Darlene’s wedding cake cell phone, perfect spot for escaped prisoners to hide, auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, solving 10y = 1,000,000, sigma notation
• 9 pg61 volume of a box, V = lwh, reading the play before the audition, new moon vs. full moon, writing a résumé, the Pinocchio paradox
• 10 pg67 why everyone likes to work for an optimist, median and mean averages, every generation has its craziness, the fad that began March 3, 1939 and lasted two months, 6(7) = 6×7 = (6)(7) = (6)7 = 6⋅7, addends 10
• 11 pg73 half past eight, what to do when a hat is too large, everybody cries—young and old, sewing on a button—50 basic survival skills, estimating using graphing, x3x5 = x8, 50 yards minus 7 inches
• 12 pg79 set subtraction, 87 meanings for the word se,t slope of a ladder = Rise Run, half of a number, six ways to combine two numbers
• 13 pg85 when to give in, why Fred didn’t want to play Romeo, the spring of selfishness, why ladders with small slopes are also dangerous, reducing fractions
• 14 pg91 Fred visits the boy who got hurt, English purist vs. everyday English vs. sloppy speech, what the weight of a gram feels like, John Doe, Jane Doe, what the weight of a milligram feels like, the prefix kilo
• 15 pg97 the newest love song: “Math Book”, Stan is monophagous, Fred’s famous Double Dance, if A, B, and C are three points on a map, is it alwaystrue that going from A to B and then from Bto C will be longer than going from Adirectly to C
• 16 pg103 epigraphs, one difficulty in writing poetry, Fred pretends he is a librarian, tally marks, bar graphs, pie charts, what not to do if your office is missing
• 17 pg109 two things you can do with a handkerchief, $57 for each word Fred spoke, five things your income depends on, the day when someone offers you a brand new car, computing how much Fred makes, the biggest happiness killer
• 18 pg115 the mode average, advertising that doesn’t tell the whole truth, 3 miles minus 3 inches
• 19 pg121 deciduous teeth, incisors, how to know that you are not a duck, counting by twelves