The ninth book in the Life of Fred Elementary Series Ice-Cream; the first book of fourth-grade material.
 
One Use of Poetry
The Big Question in Arithmetic
Stationery vs. Stationary
Multiplying Two-digit Numbers
a Pound of Hamburger Weighs More Than a Pound of Gold
the Last Ten Multiplication Facts, How to Remember 7×8 = 56
Sigma Notation
Bibelots
Subtracting 12 oz. from 15 lbs.
Forestland in the United States
Hyperbole
Bar Graphs
Ordered Pairs
Business Letters vs. Personal Letters
Capitalization in Closing Salutations
Elapsed Time
First and Second Coordinates
Using Honey Cards
Why Algebra Does Not Use the Times Sign (×)
How to Polish Leather Shoes
Maps as Seen by Artists
War Historians
Mathematicians
Lovers of Cheese and Literature Historians
a Poetical Meaning for “the Land of Milk and Honey,”
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Finding Cyprus on a Map
the Cardinality of the Set of All Ice Cream Flavors that Begin with the Letter Alpha
Implicit vs. Explicit
the Two Major Countries on the Iberian Peninsula
Why You Can’t Find an Ibex in Kansas, Minutes and Hours in the Metric System
How to Have Ice in the Summer in Kansas in 1843
Improper Use of Seat Belts
Plotting Points on a Graph
Why You Shouldn’t Park on the Sidewalk
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni’s Painting
Perimeter
the One Reason for Mathematics
When Eating Ice Cream Can Be Torture
Irony
Hooke’s Law
 Slope of a Line
Estimating Using Graphs
Changing the Scale on a Graph
Counting Back Change
Liberty vs. Freedom
the Commutativity of Set Union
Less Than (<) and Greater Than (>), Homogenized Milk
Why Use Soap
Cryogenics
What You Can Do If You Have Tons of Casual Cash (the answer: buy graph paper)
Joe’s Stomach Has Only Finite Capacity
Why Brass Braces Are Better Than Regular Braces
Area of a Rectangle.