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. 32-34.

Continue to invite students to describe the patterns they see appearing on the October calendar. The green circle pattern highlighting multiples of five and the dot pattern on the multiples of two will have become more distinct. This is a good time to ask questions that require students to use the various patterns they see to predict future pieces.

It is also a good time to help students distinguish between equilateral triangles with all sides equal and isosceles triangles with only two sides equal.