Skill: Use a calendar to identify days

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A calendar represents time in a repeating seven-day week arranged across weeks and organizes dates within a month. Learners locate a specified day, date, or month; determine which day comes before or after another; and relate today to yesterday and tomorrow, recognizing that a date’s position reflects its order in the month rather than simply its location on the page. Complex date calculations, elapsed-time problems, and relationships among months beyond reading the calendar are not included.

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Detailed Explanation: Use a calendar to identify days

A calendar helps you find the day of the week for a date.

Look at the row of weekday names: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Find the number for the date.
Move straight up to see which weekday column the number is under.

Example: What day of the week is April 10?

April

Sun  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat
      1    2    3    4    5
 6    7    8    9   10   11   12
13   14   15   16   17   18   19
20   21   22   23   24   25   26
27   28   29   30

Find the number $10$ .
The $10$ is under the Thursday column.

So, April 10 is a Thursday.

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