1 - Getting Started ~3 mins
Our question today: what is your favourite fruit: apple, banana or orange? Let's find out what the whole class thinks.
2 - Watch and Notice ~8 mins
A tally is counting with marks. Each vote is one stroke. At five, we draw a line across four strokes to make a little gate of five.
Watch two finished tallies. Find every gate of five, then read each row as a number.
3 - Try It Together ~9 mins
Hands up for apple. We count the hands together, then put that many strokes in the apple row.
Same for banana and orange. When a row reaches five, we make a gate.
Our favourite fruit
4 - Write the Tallies in Your Copy ~5 mins
In your maths copy, write the three fruit words: apple, banana and orange.
Under each word, copy the tally strokes from the board.
5 - Class Challenge ~9 mins
Look at the strokes in each row. How many votes does each answer have?
Which answer has the most? Which has the fewest?
Read the tallies
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