Our Calendar PD Dream Team - Spring 2007

What is Everyday Counts?

Every Day Counts, published by Great Source Education Group, is a supplemental calendar math curriculum that uses changing data on a bulletin board to spark 10-15 minutes of daily math discussion.

Elements such as Days of School Counting Tapes, Calendars, Coin Counters, Measurement, Clocks, Depositors, Daily Measurement, and Graphs make new grade level concepts "hands-on." Students are engaged with these new concepts all year long, not just during a single unit of study.

Each year's conversations build on the language used by teachers at the prior grade level, creating consistent math language, a helpful factor in boosting school-wide achievement.

In upper grades, new elements such as Daily Arrays, Fraction A Day, and Daily Decimal are introduced to help older students understand factors and primes, and the relationships among fractions, decimals and percents.

Questioning strategies that engage students in reasoning and sharing their predictions and their thinking are at the heart of Every Day Counts.

How might your classroom use of Everyday Counts Help Long to meet:

1) our Focus on Results (Alignment, Rigor and Engagement)?

2) our Key District Questions?

3) our CLEAR HAPG & VAPG work, the SEs and their clarified language?

4) our goal of becoming "Recognized"?

5) our implementation of Marzano Strategies?

An EDC Needs Assessment for Our Noble Team

Every Voice Counts!

An EDC Needs Assessment for Our Noble Team

1. What incentives do you see for using the Every Day Counts Calendar?





2. What obstacles have you encountered to using the Every Day Counts Calendar?





3. What do you need most to help you make the EDC Calendar part of daily practice?

Many thanks!

Questioning that Counts

Calendar & Colors Come First

The Calendar presents a unique pattern each month as a one new Calendar Piece is added daily. Students determine the code behind the sequence, which is based on number relationships or attributes of geometric figures, and develop analytical reasoning skills as they predict what the next piece will be.

The EDC 10

1. The Calendar presents a unique pattern every month.
2. Arrays provide visual representations of all factor pairs for numbers through 61, giving color-coded context and meaning to prime numbers and square numbers.
3. The Counting Tape represent as a decimal and as a fraction the number of days in school in relation to the first one hundred days.
Equivalent decimals, fractions and percents are recorded daily.
4. The Percent Circle works with the Counting Tape to represent the first one hundred days of school as a whole circle. Each day of school adds another one hundredth of the circumference to be shaded. This offers another way to represent decimal value.
5. Daily Circle uses circles in different contexts to let students explore angles, area and circumference and even probability.
6. Daily Pattern
7. Daily Variable
8. Daily Depositor
9. Daily Data
10. Daily Measurement