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1st grade math · Unit 3: Tally marks and pictographs

Reading a pictograph

What this lesson shows

Favorite sports: how many chose soccer, and how many in all, 4 + 3 + 5 = 12.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: soccer 4, baseball 3, swimming 5. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

  1. Count one row
  2. Write each row’s number
  3. Add every row

Helping at home

Count one row for how many picked it. For how many in all, write each row’s number and add them all.

If your kid gets stuck

Count each row, then add.

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

  • Common Core 1.MD.C.4
    Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
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