Instructor Notes:

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

Read Every Day Counts® Teacher’s Guide, p. 32-34, Gillespie Kanter Group, LLC., 2024, or an earlier edition.

During the last week of the month some teachers write “What Do You See?” on chart paper and list the observations. If you post the chart with a copy of the calendar in the hallway, students from other classes may also be drawn into the search.

What Do You See?

1. All the even numbers have a dot. (Maile)

2. The green circles go 5, 10, 15, 20, __ (Alana)

3. 10, 20, and 30 are both 2’s and 5’s (Lewis)

4. The orange triangles go 1, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 18 . . . It’s a +2, +3 pattern. (Jake)

5. It’s an ABABC pattern. (Emma)

6. The diagonal of dots, starting on 6, goes down adding six each time. The other diagonals to the left show a +6 pattern, too. (Vinh)

7. All the orange equilateral triangles have three congruent or equal sides. (Mikela)