



Remind students they can count by 5s for completed tallies. The younger students filled in the first column with names of colours of cars, whereas the older students chose to include other vehicles, e.g. Tallying certain criteria in your Excel 2010 spreadsheet totals the number of times the criteria appears in that document. Students interpret a tally chart and bar graph to answer the questions in this math worksheet. Here the pupils tallied red, blue, green and yellow cars as they flew past in a Powerpoint presentation.įinally I handed out the vehicle tally and graph worksheet. Filling in a chart with marks representing numbers is faster than writing out words or figures and the data is collected into sub-groups immediately, making it easy to analyse. I then gave the students a practice run of what to expect outside by using this great interactive car tallying exercise. Tally charts are used to collect data quickly and efficiently. To prepare the children I first practiced indoors with a simple interactive activity tallying farm animals on the whiteboard. On Tuesday we were scheduled to complete a tally chart of the vehicles in the area. This is great math practice for students to become more proficient in the use of math symbols, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively (MP2). My Summer Camp group this year are a group of 17 bright 6-8 year olds, I have taught the majority of them for almost 2 years (right from their ABCs). Students will be taking their friends vote, which is concrete, and writing it as tally mark on their graph, which is abstract. This week saw the start of my language centre’s Summer Camp, and with it came a lot of planning, excitement, outdoor games and sweat (thank you Vietnam for your beautiful 100☏+ weather!).
