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Exploring Tally Charts

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Exploring Tally Charts

Tally chart with fruit symbols

🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To

Today we are learning to:

• Create tally charts to show data

• Read tally charts to answer questions

• Use words like tally, total, and most popular

📊 What is a Tally Chart?

A tally chart helps us count and record information. We use tally marks to show how many.

Remember: Every 5th tally mark goes across like this: ||||

🍎 Part 1: Survey Your Classmates

1. Ask 10 classmates: "What is your favourite fruit?"

Use these sentence starters:

• "Hi! What is your favourite fruit?"

• "Thank you! I will record that."

2. Record each answer with a tally mark in the correct row:

🍎 APPLES: ________________

🍌 BANANAS: ________________

🍊 ORANGES: ________________

🍇 GRAPES: ________________

🍓 STRAWBERRIES: ________________

3. Count your tally marks and write the totals:

🍎 Apples total: ____

🍌 Bananas total: ____

🍊 Oranges total: ____

🍇 Grapes total: ____

🍓 Strawberries total: ____

🔍 Part 2: Reading Your Tally Chart

4. Which fruit is the MOST popular?
5. Which fruit is the LEAST popular?
6. How many people did you survey altogether?

Total number of people: ____

7. True or False? Circle your answers:

More people like apples than bananas:

TRUE
FALSE

Exactly 10 people answered my survey:

TRUE
FALSE

8. Draw a picture of your most popular fruit:
9. Complete this sentence:

In my survey, __________ was the most popular fruit with ____ votes.

🌟 Success Check

Can you do these? Tick the boxes:

I can make tally marks correctly

I can count my tally marks to find totals

I can find which fruit is most popular

I can read information from my tally chart

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