Instructor Notes:

For materials preparations, click ‘Back to Main Menu’ button and select ‘Getting Started – EDC Setup’.

Read Every Day Counts Teacher’s Guide, Kanter and Gillespie, Great Source, 2005 or 2012 edition, p. 68.

By Day 60, children will have seen sets of 6, 7, 8 and 9 displayed as 5 + 1, 5 + 2, 5 + 3, and 5 + 4, six times.

If they have begun to think of 6 to 9 numbers as a group of five, plus some extras, (or five fingers on one hand and the extras on the other hand), they may be ready to think about “pulling out fives” to make a fast ten when doubling 6, 7, 8, or 9.

For example, when adding 7 + 7, we can pull out a five from each seven to make 10 and add 2 + 2 to get to 14.