Tally Charts

Learn to read and understand tally charts

What You'll Learn

  • Understand what tally marks represent
  • Count tally marks in groups of 5
  • Answer questions using tally chart data

📖What are Tally Charts?

Tally charts help us count and organize information. We make marks to count things!

✏️Reading Tallies

Each line is 1. Every fifth line crosses the other 4 (||||). So |||| means 5, |||| || means 7.

💡Counting Tip

Count the groups of 5 first, then add the extra marks.