Here is a favourite-fruit tally on the board. Most means the longest tally: the fruit with the most marks. Fewest means the shortest tally: the fruit with the fewest marks.
Which fruit had the most?
Two finished tally charts. Look at the length of each tally first. The longest tally has the most. The shortest tally has the fewest.
Then we find how many more. Orange has 3. Apple has 8. Count on from 3: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That is 5 more.
A new tally chart is on the board. One of you will come up. Read a row as a number, name the most, name the fewest, or say how many more one row has than another. The class checks each answer before we move on.
Look at the favourite-pet tally on the board. In your maths copy write: Most: ___ Fewest: ___.
A snack tally is on the board. Work through these four questions together, one at a time:
Look at the length of each tally first. Long tally or short tally: what does each one tell us?
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