When is the last time you heard a child say, "Can we PLEEEEASE read our math today? PLEEEEASE!!!" Yet that is exactly what I here daily from my boys because they love this book so much. It's a narrative about a little boy, Fred Gauss, who at the age of 5 1/2 teaches college level math. He's a funny little guy, and Life of Fred chronicles some of his adventures while teaching math concepts. But this book teaches more than math. The author interjects grammar and useful life information, such as a footnote on onomatopoiea or references to literature, such as Wind in the Willows. At the end of each chapter, there are problems to work that practice the skills taught within the narrative, but they focus on application rather than redundancy. For us, Life of Fred has eliminated day after day of boring math pages.
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