TaIIy Marks Math

Author: Nicole Good

Date created: 02/10/2014 8:01 PM EDT ; Date modified: 02/10/2014 11:06 PM EDT
VITAL INFORMATION
Total Number of Students 20 Students
Area(s) Students Live In
Free/Reduced Lunch
Ethnicity of Students
English Language Learners
Students with Special Needs
Subject(s) Mathematics
Topic or Unit of Study Counting tally marks.
Grade/Level Kindergarten
KEY CONCEPTS & STANDARDS
Big Idea & Essential
Questions
This lesson helps review a way to count by fives using a game that has students practicing writing tally marks.
Learning Outcome(s) The learner will count how many tally marks are written by the teacher and show the number in a certain manner.
The learner will determine the number the spinner landed on.
The learner will write tally marks on their tally mark sheet.
Summary Students will play a tally mark game in order to practice writing tally marks on their record sheet.
Standards
CA- California Common Core State Standards (2012)
Subject: Mathematics
Grade: Kindergarten
Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking K.OA
Area: Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking
from.
Standard:
5. Fluently add and subtract within 5.
ASSESSMENTS
Assessment/Rubrics I will first assess students by seeing if they can individually count the correct number of tally marks I write on the board.
I will look to see who is correctly answering and who is not. When they are individually working at their table I will
assess them to see if they are correctly writing their tally's on their record sheet.
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Instructional Materials &
Technology (handouts, etc.)
-Tally mark game sheet
-Tally mark record sheet
-Paper clip
-Pencil

IMPLEMENTATION
Sequence of Activities 1. The teacher will start by saying that tally marks are a way of counting numbers. Each tally mark represent one
number.
2. The teacher will have students quietly point to different areas in the classroom where they already use tally marks
(happy/ sad face points, the weather)
3. As a whole group the class will practice counting different tally mark totals. the teacher will use different modes of
response (write in the air, whisper in your hand, raise a quiet hand, etc.)
4. The teacher will model how to play the tally mark game with the students assistant.
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How to play:
-Students will spin their spinner on their gameboard
-They will then record what number their spinner landed on on their tally mark sheet.
-They will keep doing this until it is time to share.
5. Students will get a game board and a tally marking sheet and will play the game at their seats.
6. The teacher will bring the class back whole group and students will share their tally mark findings (What was your
hghest tally mark total? Lowest? Same?)
Grouping Strategies Whoel group in the beginning and closure. Independent work while playing their tally mark game.
Differentiated Instruction
REFLECTIONS
Prior to Lesson
Post-Lesson
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