Tally Cat Keeps Track by Trudy Harris

Author:Trudy Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781512478921
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Have you ever used your fingers to help you count? Using fingers

is one way to keep track of the number of things we are counting. But

sometimes, the items we are counting total more than our ten fingers.

Tallying is another way for people to keep track of things they

count. Tally marks look like this:

Does this remind you

of using your fingers to count?

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To tally, we count “1, 2, 3, 4, tally cross 5.” Each tally line represents one

thing that we are counting. We can continue counting by adding more tally lines

or marks: “6, 7, 8, 9, tally cross 10.” The next group would be “11, 12, 13, 14, tally

cross 15.” When we count groups of tallies, we count by fives. For any leftover

marks (groups less than five), we keep counting by ones. The numbers below end

with a group of three: 16, 17, 18.

With tallying, we can keep track of more than one thing at a time. In our

story, on page 5 Tally McNally kept track of his cans and Stripes’s cans. Each

time a can was added to Stripes’s pile, Tally added one mark by Stripes’s name.

Each time a can was added to Tally’s pile, he added a mark by his own name. This

would have been a great way to see who was taller—if all the cans had been the

same size. But that sneaky Tally scrunched some of his cans. That way he could

add more cans to his tally and make it look like he was taller. Can you tell how he

tried to trick Kitty on page 6 so that his tally was smaller?

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