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A few weeks ago I shared a review on a set of Life of Fred Beginning readers we received from Educents. We are absolutely loving the readers and have more on the way for our reading fun – and now a few more books in the Life of Fred math series thanks to the kind folks at Educents. Kaleb is literally in educational heaven. (You won’t hear me complaining!)
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Reasons to Love Life of Fred Math
Life of Fred math wasn’t on our original homeschool curriculum plan for this year, but after a few weeks of school Kaleb started asking when we were going to use Fred for math again. The last few years we have worked through the first five books in the elementary math series and loved them. Needless to say, I’d rather not say no when one of my kiddos asks to have a little more fun with math.
We have loved the Life of Fred elementary math books for many of the same reasons we love their elementary readers:
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Laughter abounds – any curriculum that makes a subject fun is a huge win for a family.
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Simple – the lessons seem easy, but kids are absorbing so much more than you realize through the simple format and presentation.
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Short chapters and simple text – the text isn’t overwhelming.
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Silly stories – there is a continuing story throughout the books that kids follow (the older kids even listen in to find out what is happening with Fred).
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No extras needed – you don’t need any added manipulatives or extras to go along with the books. Just read together and learn.
- Resuable – the sturdy hardcover books can be used by multiple children (and will withstand all the bending, dropping, etc).
The above video gives a quick summary on what you’ll find in each of the math books, but you can read more about the Life of Fred Elementary math series here.
Save 10% at Educents!
Currently Educents is offering discounted bundles of both Life of Fred Math and the Life of Fred Beginning Readers for purchase directly from their site. Save an extra 10% off with the coupon code HSC10. It’s a special code JUST for my readers, so be sure to use it!!
If you’d like to learn more about the Life of Fred Beginning Readers and see our thoughts (and a video peek at the books), be sure to visit this post for more information.
A Giveaway from Educents
Educents has also offered one of my readers the FULL Life of Fred Elementary math series! Giveaway ends Monday, October 26th at 11:59 pm and is open to US residents. To enter the giveaway, follow the directions in the Rafflecopter widget below.
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Thank you for the opportunity! I have wanted to try ” Fred ” for a while!
haven’t tried it yet, but i’ve heard lots of good things!
Thanks Educent! I borrowed one of the Life Of Fred books thru our library, but would love to own the series.
Thank you for hosting! Love life of Fred!
My son is speeding through the Apples book, he loves it that much!
Thank you do much for this opportunity! I have friends who rave about these books and my little math lover would love these!
Would like to try life of Fred. Think my kids would really like it.
We borrowed Life of Fred from our library. But they would only buy up through Farming. My daughter loves this series, so we would love owning it
Thanks for the giveaway. I’ve heard great things.
We’d love to win LOF!
Thanks for hosting! Hoping to win!
Thanks for this opportunity!
We would love to try Life of Fred as a series. My kids have read the first one and loved it!
We love the Life of Fred books!
Thanks for hosting!!
No, I have not used Life of Fred or purchased from EduCents. Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the opportunity. These look like fun!
We love Life of Fred! And we would love to own these books.
We’ve tried the pre-algebra but not the lower levels. Interesting, and a lot less repetitious than some other math curriculum.
This would be great! We love LOF!
We love Fred! But are always scrambling to borrow. I love that my first grade twins are learning so much through these books
We love Life of Fred for Algebra. I’d love to have the elementary series to supplement my littles.
I’ve used LOF and bought through educents before and I have been very happy with both.
We just started Life of Fred and are really liking it so far, this would fantastic to win! Thank you!
Have heard so many good things about Life of Fred. And we love Educents!
I have not tried Life of Fred, or Educents, but we have always wanted to.Thanks for sharing this giveaway!
I would love this! I’ve never used life of fred but have heard amazing things about it
We LOVE the LoF books! We only have a few and would love the chance to win the whole set. Thanks for the giveaway!
We just read Life of Fred (math) for the first time yesterday! The kids loved it! Can’t wait to read more!
I was just talking to a friend about starting this program with my daughter next year!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to win! I’ve seen LOF, and am intrigued, but have not yet purchased!
We read Life of Fred Apple and the kids have been wanting to read more ever since!
Thank you for offering this! We just got the first book Apples and my daughter and I are loving it!
seriously am falling in LOVE with Fred the more i read. great, great giveaway!!
Thanks for the giveaway! I’ve been hoping to try Fred with my kiddos for quite some time now… I think both my kids would love them!
Awesome giveaway! We have read the very first Fred book.
I have not tried LOF but it will be my top pick for math when I start homeschooling.
I just ordered some of the books this morning from Educents!
We are currently getting ready to finish our first book in the math series and we love it!! It was a rough start at first, but after my little one got into the story, they can’t put it down.
Thanks for the chance, Educents! Would love to have these in our homeschool library.
Thank you for the opportunity to win! We liked the books for the older kids but have yet to try the ones for the younger kiddos.
Thank you for the chance to win!!
I haven’t yet! Thanks for this chance!
Purchased first 4 books in elementary math. Would love the complete series.
I’ve checked one of the math books out from the library and we love it – I am excited to collect them all!
Thanks for the giveaway! We’ve done LoF Apples for math and my kids love it! It adds a really fun component to math. I’d love to win the rest of the set!
I have always wanted to try Life of Fred!! Thanks for doing this giveaway!
I haven’t used Life of Fred but I’ve so wanted to…we have switched Math curriculums twice and it’s still a tough subject for my 4th and 5th grader.
Thanks for the giveaway! My book lover would probably like Fred more than her normal workbook based math.
I have used the first two books of the Life of Fred math series. My boy loves them!
I want to win! Looks excellent!
Thanks for this giveaway. Have heard a lot about Life of Fred.
Thanks so much! I love the Educents website!
We would love to win a set of life of Fred math books.
I have not used Life of Fred Math. I have ordered Magic School Bus science kits from Educents before. I need something fun for my 3rd grader who does not enjoy math at all.
We use LOF but only have the first 2 books. It is the only way he finally “got it” when it came to math! We have not used the language arts or begining readers yet but certainly plan to! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
My girls loved the first “Life of Fred” book! Would love to own them instead of borrowing them!
We haven’t used LOF yet, nor have we ordered from Educents (although we’ve taken advantage of a few downloadable Educents freebies). I have been seriously considering trying out LOF math with my oldest as a supplement to Teaching Textbooks.