Kids can use popsicle sticks and keep a tally of the numbers on playing cards to practice. We’ve taken tallying and turned it into a hands-on and fun tally marks activity. For preschool kids, the tally marks help make the concept of skip counting by fives more concrete and demonstrate the speed of skip counting. One of the great benefits of tally marks is the ability to process a huge number of objects quickly without having to keep track of where you are. But for kids, tally marks are a way to start sorting, grouping, and organizing the process of counting visually. Tally marks allow adults to keep counting whatever big job they need to count, and then come back and tally up the final totals after the counting job is done. Please note that I only recommend tools that I personally use and love and I always have my readers’ best interest at heart. If you use them, I might be rewarded credit or a commission of the sale. Disclaimer: This blog post contains affiliate links. The slashes are kept in groups of five, and the fifth one of each group crosses the others to show that the group is complete. For each object counted, a slash mark is drawn on the paper. Tally marks are a quick way to keep track as you count. Once your preschool student has a little bit of basic number sense and can count to twenty, you can introduce this fun tally marks activity with popsicle sticks to help them transition to grouping and adding numbers quickly. Whenever possible, I like to use hands-on methods to help make numbers into concrete concepts kids can grasp. Numbers and counting are great skills to work on when your child reaches preschool age.
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