Pictographs & tallies
Read pictures and tally marks to count and compare.
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Tallies and pictures help us count and compare.
Look: Mango: two bundles of five and 2 more = 12.
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1Two bundles and 3 strokes. How many?
21 picture = 5 cars. How many cars in 4 pictures?
3With that key, how do you show 15 cars?
! Careful!
✗Counting pictures and forgetting the key.
✓Multiply by what one picture stands for.
✗Drawing the fifth tally as a normal stroke.
✓The fifth stroke goes across the four.
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Tallies and pictures help us count and compare.
In a tally, |||| with a line across means 5. In a pictograph, each picture stands for a number. Always read the key first.
Think of it like thisKeeping score in a game: one stroke for every run. Every fifth stroke goes across the other four, so you can count in fives.
- Key
- Tells what one picture is worth.
Solved together
Each star means 2 books. How many more books on Tuesday than Wednesday?
Tuesday has 5 stars. 5 × 2 = 10 books.
Wednesday has 2½ stars. 2 × 2 + 1 = 5 books.
Find the difference.
10 − 5 = 5
Answer5 more books.
Now practise it
Kanakku makes new questions on pictographs & tallies every time. It shows the working and gives a hint when you are stuck.