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?