Tallies, sums with tallies and tens pictograms

Sort and count with tally marks, add and take away with tallies, and draw a pictogram where one picture is 10.

Guide

This studio follows early-years counting and Year 2 statistics. Read the sentences aloud if your child is still learning to read.

tally marks: one line for each thing. The fifth line goes across the other four. You can add and take away with tallies too: to add, draw new lines; to take away, rub some out.

Sometimes an exact number is not needed. We round to the nearest ten: 38 is nearer to 40 and 33 is nearer to 30.

In a tens pictogram one picture stands for 10. Half a picture is 5. Charts run from left to right.