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9.06 Months

Lesson

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Do you know your birthday? It has a day, month and a year in it.

Idea summary

There are 12 months in the year, they have an order that we need to learn:

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Months of the year

Let's look at 2 ways to remember how many days each month of the year has.

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Examples

Example 1

What month comes after August?

Worked Solution
Create a strategy

Starting from January, call out the months in order until you get to August.

Apply the idea

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September.

So the month after August is September.

Idea summary
Number of days
January30
February28/29
March31
April30
May31
June30
July31
August31
September30
October31
November30
December31

A leap year happens every 4 years, in those years February has 29 days.

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