Life of Fred: Goldfish

By: Stanley F. Schmidt Ph.D.  Goldfish is the seventh book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series, which is designed for students in grades 1-4. Each narrative-based chapter is approximately six pages, and ends with a "Your Turn to Play" segment with three or four questions. Answers are provided on the next page for students to go over themselves after attempting to solve the problems. This book should take approximately one month to complete. 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, a Crocodile Smile, What to Remember If You Smoke, Comparative Forms of Adjectives, Superlative Forms of Adjectives, a Waning Moon, People's Life Goals Are Different than Fish's L