Fun With Math for Life of Fred
Enhance your Life of Fred curriculum with the Fun With Math lesson plans for your Homeschool Planet subscription featuring one-click access to a wealth of fun online activities, worksheets, and videos supplementing the concepts taught in each Life of Fred chapter. Life of Fred math is a unique and complete curriculum that presents concepts through engaging and humorous narratives about the main character, Fred Gauss, as he discovers the relevance and importance of math.
What You Get:
- Easy-to-use, one-page Teacher Guides for each Life of Fred chapter with suggestions for fun, supplemental activities.
- One-click access to educational videos, printable worksheets, and other resources that reinforce and illuminate the concepts taught in each Life of Fred chapter.
- Checkboxes for your students to check off as they complete their assignments, providing them with a sense of accomplishment and a permanent record of their achievement.
- Elementary Lesson Plan bundle includes all 10 lesson plans!!
- Intermediate Lesson Plan bundle includes all 5 lesson plans!!
- Elementary & Intermediate Lesson Plan Bundle includes all 15 lesson plans!!
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Fun with Math for Life of Fred Elementary & Intermediate Package For Grades 1 - 5
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Life of Fred: Apples Life of Fred: Butterflies Life of Fred: Cats Life of Fred: Dogs Life of Fred: Edgewood Life of Fred: Farming Life of Fred: Goldfish Life of Fred: Honey Life of Fred: Ice Cream Life of Fred: Jelly Beans Life of Fred: Kidneys Life of Fred: Liver Life of Fred: Mineshaft Life of Fred: Fractions Life of Fred: Decimals & Percents |
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Fun With Math for Life of Fred® Elementary Package For Grades 1 - 4
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Life of Fred: Apples For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Butterflies For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Cats For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Dogs For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Edgewood For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Farming For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Goldfish For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Honey For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Ice Cream For Grades 1 - 4 Life of Fred: Jelly Beans For Grades 1 - 4 |
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Fun with Math for Life of Fred Intermediate Package For Grades 5 - 7
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Lesson Plan Bundle includes:
Fun with Math for Life of Fred: Kidneys Fun with Math for Life of Fred: Liver Fun with Math for Life of Fred: Mineshaft Fun with Math for Life of Fred: Fractions Fun with Math for Life of Fred: Decimals & Percents |
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Life of Fred: Apples For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Apples lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Apples By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Apples is the first book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Students are ready to jump into this text if they can count, add, and subtract with numbers up to 10; it's recommended that all students who are new to Life of Fred (up through the 4th grade) should start with Apples. Apples covers: Numbers that Add to 7, Circles, Ellipses, Reading 6:00 on a Clock, 5 + ? = 7, Days of the Week, Leap Years, Spelling February, Dressing for Cold Weather, 15 Degrees Below Zero (-15:), and many others.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Butterflies For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Butterflies lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Butterflies By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Butterflies is the second book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Butterflies covers: One Yard = 3 Feet, Numbers that Add to 9, Counting by twos, Reading 5:10 on a Clock, Facts about Butterflies, Chrysalis vs. Cocoon, Braces, Parentheses and Brackets, Christina Rossetti, Sheet Music for "But Not Alone," Domenico Fetti's Archimedes Thoughtful, Exclamation Points, Bad Things about Sugar, One Good Thing about Sugar, and many others.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Cats For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Cats lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Cats By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Cats is the third book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Cats covers: Ursa Major (Big Bear), Commutative, Asterism, Vowels, Cardinality of a Set, Loud Talkers, Hiring Freeze, One Quarter, Numerals vs. Numbers, Counting by Threes, Hoodwinked, Finding Patterns, Sheet Music for "Happy", Four Basic Emotions, Right Angles, Quarter and Half Notes, Obligate Carnivores, Adjectives and Verbs, Carbohydrates, a Quarter to Three, the Mariana Trench, 5280 Feet in a Mile, Ferdinand Magellan's Trip, What Pacific Means, Bacteria, Rabies in 300 B.C., and many others.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Dogs For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Dogs lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Dogs By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Dogs is the fourth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Dogs covers: One Million, Our Place in the Dance of Life, pi, the Game of Doubles, Fortnight, Digits in a Number, Two Dimes = 20 Cents, New Words in English, Anachronism, Middle English, Old English, Doubling 1 to 2 to 4 to up to 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 (which is 100 doubles), 7 - z = 4, Making Choices in Life, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Morse Code from A-Z, Functions, and many others.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Edgewood For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Edgewood lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Edgewood By Polka Dot Publishing
 Edgewood is the fifth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Edgewood covers: Dangling participles, Concurrent Lines, Christina Rossetti's "A Chill," Dealing with Troubles, Parallel Lines, Trapezoids, Right Angles, Facing Things You Don't Want to Do, Functions, Rhombuses, Constant Functions, Tripoli, Eritrea, Median Average, Writing Larger Numbers with Commas, Using Logarithms to Solve 2x = 5, Birdie Rule for Logarithms, Finding Approximate values for log 5 on a Calculator, Bar Graphs, Math Poems, >, Couplets in Poetry, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Farming For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Farming lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Farming By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Farming is the sixth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Farming covers: Why Many Dolls Have a Vacant Stare, Adding to 14, Litotes, Googol, Three Things in Order to be Great, Oxymorons, Percents, Adding to 16, Rows of a Matrix, Median Average, Collective Nouns, Union of Sets, All of Mathematics Generated by the Empty Set, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Goldfish For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Goldfish lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Goldfish By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Goldfish is the seventh book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Goldfish covers: Tulip Mania, Drawing Things to Scale, Digits in a Number, Similes, Being Pardoned Before Being Tried in 1974, What Is Rarely on a Doll's Christmas List, the Whole Point of Math, Don't Wave Your Money Around, the Advanced Form of the Game of Which of These Is Not Like the Others, Keeping Your Word, Picking Your Friends and Your Spouse, Polygons, Sequences, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Honey For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Honey lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Honey By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Honey is the eighth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Honey covers: A Real Education Is Both Broad and Deep, Thirty-six Shades of Blue, Commutative Law of Multiplication, Closed Under Addition, Having a Job that Matters, Quarter of an Hour, Cardinal Numbers, Developing Character, Time Zones in the U.S., d equals rt, the Milky Way, One Trillion, Exponents, Protons in the Observable Universe, Atoms, Periodic Table of the Elements, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Ice Cream For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Ice Cream lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Ice Cream By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Ice Cream is the ninth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Ice Cream covers: One Use of Poetry, The Big Question in Arithmetic, Stationery vs. Stationary, Multiplying Two-digit Numbers, a Pound of Hamburger Weighs More Than a Pound of Gold, the Last Ten Multiplication Facts, How to Remember 7W8 equals 56, Sigma Notation, Bibelots, Subtracting 12 oz. from 15 lbs., and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Jelly Beans For Grades 1 - 4
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Jelly Beans lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Jelly Beans By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing
 Jelly Beans is the tenth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Jelly Beans covers: Little Babies Can't Fritter Away Their Time, Finding One-third of a Number, Using Fisher's Exact test, When the Possessive Case Is Indicated with Just an Apostrophe and No s, Prime Numbers, Fibonacci Numbers, Nouns, Fred's Seven-word Speech, the Use of Segues, Can Dolls Grow Up?, Casting Out Nines, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Kidneys For Grade 5
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Kidneys lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Kidneys By Polka Dot Publishing
 Kidneys is the first book in the Life of Fred Intermediate Series, which is designed for students who have completed the elementary series books but have not yet completed grade 5. Kidneys covers: Three Keys to Success, Charles Demuth's "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold," Milliliters, Teachers' Salaries, How to Carry Money on the Street, Writing Numerals in Checks ($4000 and Not $40.00), and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Liver For Grade 5
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Liver lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Liver By Polka Dot Publishing
 Liver is the second book in the Life of Fred Intermediate Series, which is designed for students who have completed the elementary series books but have not yet completed grade 5. Liver covers: What to Pack for Camp, Three Separate Quarters Equals Three-Quarters, Why Blowing Your Nose and Wiping Your Eyes Is Not Commutative, I.e., E.g., Viz., Elapsed Time, the Two Rules of Survival, Passing the Sat Exam, Metaphors, and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Mineshaft For Grade 5
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Mineshaft lesson plan can be found by using the following link~Life of Fred: Mineshaft By Polka Dot Publishing
 Mineshaft is the third book in the Life of Fred Intermediate Series, which is designed for students who have completed the elementary series books, but have not yet completed grade 5. Mineshaft covers: Milligrams and Pounds, Rounding Numbers; a Trillion Pounds of Rice to Cuba; the Number of Stars in a Typical Galaxy; Three-eighths of 19,416; Is a Quart less than (<) a Duck?; What to Do with Eleven Hours of Free Time Each Day; and many other topics.Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Fractions For Grade 5
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Fractions lesson plan can be found by using the following links~
Life of Fred: Fractions By Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D. / Polka Dot Publishing Zillions of Practice Problems: Fractions By Polka Dot Publishing Fractions is the first book in the Life of Fred Arithmetic Series, which is designed for students who have completed the elementary & intermediate series books, and are at least in the 5th Grade. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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Life of Fred: Decimals & Percents For Grades 5 - 7
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The curriculum for this Life of Fred: Decimals & Percents lesson plan can be found by using the following links~
Life of Fred: Decimals and Percents By Polka Dot Publishing Zillions of Practice Problems: Decimals By Polka Dot Publishing Decimals & Percents is the second book in the Life of Fred Arithmetic Series, which is designed for students who have completed the elementary & intermediate series books and are at least in the 5th Grade. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information. |
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