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. 59.

Continue having students suggest three different combinations of coins that add up to an amount equal to the number of the day in school, displaying the fewest coins in the top pocket. You can move the discussion to the problem solving level by suggesting that everyone try to create the day’s total with a given number of coins.

Posing shopping problems will give students practice with choosing appropriate coins with which to make the purchase and with determining correct change.

On Day 50 you may choose whether to keep going with quarters or whether to trade for the half dollar (although we rarely see one today). Using the Internet to research the status of the half dollar might be fun.