Life of Fred
by Stanley F. Schmidt · first published 2013
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Life of Fred is pretty entertaining. Though you may need to read the stories to your son. Teaching Textbooks, my older daughter's favorite, has video tutoring. Singapore Math is good, too. There are programs you…
on “Ask HN: Good math books / activities for children?” ↗…Another good game is Tiny Polka Dot - we've come up with so many of our own variations on the games. https://wordpress.com/posts/bancosparenting.wordpress.com In terms of actual books, we really enjoy Life of Fred. https://www.rainbowresource.com/category/9813/Life-of-Fred.h...
on “How to Teach Math?” ↗Phenomenal! Good books are critical, and were formative to me. Add Life of Fred for math and you're golden.
on “Show HN: Great Books Homeschool beta program” ↗To answer your question, the youngest age at which I have seen a pupil propose a proof by contradiction to me was age eight. The girl had read some Life of Fred http://www.lifeoffredmath.com/ books for children about mathematics, and had newly joined my local mathematics class. On only the second or third week of class, she came up to me after class and said,…
on “Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old” ↗…and so on. Fundamentalist parents are often quite surprisingly happy for their children to read those kinds of books because they are written from the perspective of the in-group. There's a reason that Life of Fred is popular. If you want to write a book about the theory of science and what truth is, go ahead, but you aren't going to make much of an impact on that particular target audience.
on “Truth, Math, and Models (Part 8 in a series on the scientific method)” ↗My kids are 13/11/9/7/3/1 and we homeschool. I took over math in September after the new baby came. I taught the four oldest from the Life of Fred series. The youngest was tearing through the books too fast, so at Christmas I gave her a cribbage board and we played that all spring. Her addition quickly surpassed the 9-year-old, and when we played…
on “Ask HN: How do you practice math with your kids?” ↗