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Week 09 · Colorful Plates

Tuesday

Tally the colors
// Count the colors, graph the colors
⏱ about 15 min

Tuesday: Tally the Colors

Bennie the Bear tries to count the colors in the basket. He loses his place!

"Was that seven carrots or eight?" he asks with a sigh.

Ferris hands him a pencil. "What do you notice about counting by fives?"

Riley draws four lines and one line across them. "Here is a hint," he says. "Bundle by fives."

Tally marks

A tally mark is one line for one thing.

The fifth line goes across the other four. That makes a bundle of 5.

Count the bundles by fives. Then count the extra lines by ones.

TallyNumber
|||3
||||/5
||||/ ||7
||||/ ||||/10
||||/ ||||/ |?

In the table, ||||/ stands for a bundle of 5.

One bundle and 1 extra line is ____.
Two bundles and 1 extra line is ____.
Three bundles is ____.

Lizzy's color tally

Lizzy counted the produce in the basket. Here is her tally chart.

ColorTallyNumber
Red||||/ |||8
Orange||||/5
Green||||/ ||||/10
Purple||2
READ THE TALLY CHART
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Which color has the most?
How many more red than orange?
How many foods are red or purple?
StatementTrue or false?
Each tally mark stands for one thing.?
A bundle of tally marks is 10.?
Purple has the fewest foods.?
Green has 2 more than red.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEA tally chart lets you compare counts at a glance.
How many foods did Lizzy count in all? Type a number.
WHY THIS EXERCISEAdding every row gives the total.
On paper, draw a bar graph of Lizzy's tally chart. Make one bar for each color.
Try it
Make tally marks for the fruits in your kitchen.
Remember to bundle by fives.

Tally star! Tomorrow is Kitchen Lab. You will hunt for colors and make a graph.

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