Discover how to record and represent your findings when working scientifically.
Child: So, are there more birds than mammals in the park?
Molly: That鈥檚 what I鈥檓 trying to figure out.
Ah, a magpie - definitely a bird!
Log that one and load tally table.
Narrator: A great way to record data! A chart would help us to review it though鈥
Molly: Ok, load chart.
Narrator: This line chart shows the number of birds and mammals over the whole week.
Molly: We can easily see there are more birds.
Where did that magpie go?
Child: Oh!
Tally tables
Tally marks are used for counting things.
They are small vertical lines, each one representing one unit. The fifth tally mark in a group is always drawn across the first four - as this makes it easier to count the total in groups of five.
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