Life of Fred Elementary

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Ellipses are like circles, but

Circles are rounded like ellipses, but

are perfectly round not "squished" at all.

the time when the short hand is pointing to 6 and the long hand is pointing to 12

List the days of the week

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Leap Years have how many days?

Most years have how many days?

The 2nd month of the year is ??

February
F E B R U A R Y

deciduous trees

lose their leaves in winter

287-212 BCE
An ancient Greek mathematician
calculated the size of the Universe and how many grains of sand it would take to fill it [a vigintillion] in a work called "The Sand Reckoner"
Got killed by being rude

1 million = 1,000,000

a number many people think is big

wrote a famous geometry book called "The Elements"

a special type of rectangle whose 4 sides are all the same

a 4 sided shape with 4 square [or right] angles

a shape with 3 sides and 3 corners

an animal that eats plants

an animal that eats other animals

an animal that eats a combination of plants and animals

Each large number on a clock represents how many minutes?

Which hand on a clock indicates the minutes?

Which hand on a clock indicates the hour?

Count by 2's to 30

2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30

The hard-shelled pupa of certain insects, especially butterflies

the silky case that a caterpillar makes to protect itself for a time before it becomes a moth

braces
Use when you list the members of a set

Christini Rossetti

poet who wrote "Consider the Lilies.." and "Caterpillar"

Exclamation point
shows emotion or emphasis

tastes sweet but
1) can make you fat
2) can cause heart disease
3) can make cancer cells grow
4) hurts your immune system
5) can cause diabetes

invented the first paper straw in 1888

constellation that looks like a hunter with a belt, sword, and bow
includes the red supergiant star Betelgeuse /beetle-juice/

3 or more points all in a row

choosing to do something; brain is active

doing something without paying attention; brain is distracted

ordinal numbers

name the order things came in;
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, etc.

Large circle-shaped tent made of animal skins that can be packed up and moved from place to place.

a large cloud of dust and gas that can break apart into smaller pieces and form stars

the distance light can travel in a year; a measure of distance not time; 6,000,000,000,000 miles

lines that form right angles

post meridiem; time between noon and midnight

ante meridiem; time between midnight and noon

quotation marks

" "
put around words that people say

spine of a book

the edge of a book that usually has the title written on it

birth or origination

the period of history when there was a great rebirth of art and literature from around the 1300s to the 1600s in Europe

resting (no object) VS. to place or put (has an object)

past tense of lay

past participle of lay

cardinal numbers

numbers for counting

1 followed by 12 zeroes
1,000,000,000,000

1 followed by 15 zeroes
1,000,000,000,000,000

1 followed by 18 zeroes
1,000,000,000,000,000,000

cardinal number associated with the set of all numbers
written with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet

set of states beginning with M

{Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana}

∞
having no end

one of the world's most famous poems
written by Virgil in the year 100 BCE
mentions a food similar to pizza

appeared in Latin in the year 997 CE
but has been around since the year 500 BCE when soldiers of Kind Darius baked bread on their shields and added cheese and dates

1 followed by 9 zeroes
1,000,000,000

1 followed by 100 zeroes

star at the center of our Solar System

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