Tally Marks

We have been tally marking everything lately. We hope you enjoyed your tally marking lesson during our homework last week.  
We have learnt to categorise items in groups, we have thought of lots of ways to group things, by type, colour or even how many legs or wheels.

Here are some pictures of us at Maths time making estimates and then tallying up objects in our classroom. First we do this as a class and then we have a practise in groups, but we each do our own work. 

We made estimates about a pile of plastic dinosaurs on our mat. Joe said 26, Fergus said 35, Oliver said 100, Tyne estimated 31 and everyone else made estimates between 6 and 12.

There were 39 dinosaurs so Fergus was the closest. He is good at making estimates. Hira was the tally mark master; that means he sits on the teacher's chair and makes the tally marks while we all count. He teaches us all how to do it in groups of five. We are still learning to count in groups of five, we are getting better every day we practise. 

We are also learning to work systematically. There are lots of things to think about to make sure we are accurate.  

Hira's Tally Marks