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. 71.

This month volunteers get to choose two items they estimate are affordable to purchase given the day’s amount. The class is asked to share mental math strategies for computing or checking the exact total due. Then the class decides on the appropriate coins from the top pocket to use to make the purchase and determines any change due.