Today our question is right here on the board: What is your favourite fruit — apple, banana or orange? You already know how to ask a question and collect answers, so now we get to count them. Every time a hand goes up, we make one little tally stroke. And here is the clever part: on every fifth answer, we lay one stroke right across the other four, like a gate on a field. Ready to count?
The interactive builds up three tally rows on screen, one vote at a time. Watch how the strokes get bundled as each new vote comes in, and see if you can read the total before it appears.
Today we build a tally together as the answers come in. One pupil adds each stroke at the board, and everyone else has a job too: after each stroke goes up, we all say the new running total aloud together. We start with four strokes, then the gate on the fifth, then a seventh, and keep going to a whole row of twelve. That way we always know where we are.
In your maths copy, draw a tally of eight: one gate of five, and then three more strokes standing beside it. Under it, write the total: 8.
Today we tally these totals together, each one a little bigger than the last: first 5 with one gate, then 8, then 11, then 12. Before each one, have a best guess at how many gates it will take and how many strokes will be left over — we will build it and check together, so a wrong guess is fine.
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