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. 64-65.

Before students leave for vacation you might want to have them use their journals to write definitions in their own words for terms like polygon, quadrilateral, and trapezoid. You might also have them pair up to make lists of the different patterns they have noticed so far this month.

Making a T Chart listing the numbers on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, yellow hexagon is a fun way to examine the x3 function and to predict the number for any future hexagon.