Life of Fred, written by Stanley F. Schmidt, Ph.D., is a series of math books that are based on the story of 5 year old math genius Fred Gauss. Once children have mastered addition, subtraction and the multipication tables, they are ready to begin using Life of Fred, which carries the student from fractions through two years of calculus and beyond.
"In one of the Life of Fred books, Fred Gauss was born on the western slopes of the Siberian mountains. By the end of the eleven books, he is six years old. In his everyday life he first encounters the need for each new part of mathematics, and then comes the mathematics. Never again will students have to ask their perennial question: 'When are we ever gonna use this stuff?'"
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My gr'dtr is using "Freddy" as remedial math in hopes that the cartoon and ways to solve will be appealing to her. She feels very much like a failure, but the fault lies with her as she missed so much school from bullying and illness. She is actually very intelligent but refuses to believe it.