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.

October’s ABABC pattern with an overlapping pattern of dots on the multiples of two helps sustain the conversation from September about odd and even numbers.

At the beginning of the month, simply asking, “What do you see so far?” can get discussion rolling.

When children point out that the orange and yellow triangles are different, we can examine how they are different, leading to a discussion of the attributes of equilateral and isosceles triangles.