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Life of Fred ebook?

Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-24T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

Tagged: E-book, Life of Fred

This topic has 3 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 12 years ago by ztkris.

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May 8, 2013 at 11:34 am
Mum In Zion
Participant
Does anyone know if it is possible to purchase the Life of Fred books as ebooks? The shipping for international is more than the price of the books but I would love to give these a go with my ds12.
Today we were struggling through a lesson on equivalent fractions and he just stopped and looked at me with tears in his eyes and asked “Will I ever use this when I am a grown up?” I think just seeing a page of numbers but no context in which to use them made him wonder about their relevance to “real life”.
TIA
Blessings, Michelle
May 8, 2013 at 5:58 pm
apsews
Member
You could email the author and ask if it is in the future.
http://stanleyschmidt.com/contactme.htm
May 8, 2013 at 11:54 pm
Jenni
Participant
Have you looked in to http://www.amazon.com/Math-Lessons-Living-Education-Book/dp/B008Q0U56A ?
I also found these while searching for that…
http://www.realworldmath.org/
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr148.shtml
FYI, we use and love Fred. And Kingie. Love!
May 10, 2013 at 10:03 am
ztkris
Participant
Unfortunately, the author says on http://stanleyschmidt.com/FredGauss/21%20Questions/3050%20E-book,%20CDs.html
“It’s my prejudice that Fred wouldn’t do as well as an e-book.”
Emailing the author is a great idea, though. Maybe if you explain your reasons and that you would (I assume) print a hard copy yourself, that would help. You could tell him that you know at least one other international homeschooler (we live in China) who would love to have an e-book, too. =) If you think it will help, I’ll write him, too.
Would you mind posting here what you find out? TIA!