The Tally Stick Essay

special times. In “The Tally Stick”, Jarold Ramsey introduces us to a couple who use a tally stick rather than pictures to represent what is important in their lives. Ramsey takes us from the beginning of the relationship, when the stick is bare, to the end when it is carved end to end. We learn of the outside events that build their love, as well as internal measure, upon which their love is built. According to Ramsey the stick is a part of the couple’s relationship. The tally stick shows that love can

The tally sticks had been used for thousands of years and continued to be used until the 19th century. For instance, the tally sticks was used to either additive nor subtractive, whereas the numbers one, two, three and four were represented by the equivalent amount of vertical lines. If these numbers described in the article would be written in tally sticks a Roman numerals. For instance, “Four could be written as either IIII or IV” (Reddy). Another example, seven on a tally stick would look

will know how to collect data using tally marks and what a tally mark is. • Students will know basic addition and subtraction. TEKS: list and state 3.8.(A) summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals; and 3.8.(B) solve one- and two-step problems using categorical data represented with a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals. Vocabulary: • Tally Marks: a quick way of keeping track

Introduction Counting was one of the things that inspired mankind’s first efforts at mathematics. However, “the origins of numbers (counting) are cloaked in mystery…I think it’s safe to say that as civilization advanced numbers advanced with it; it is equally safe to say that civilization could not have advanced without it” (Law, 2012). In general, two possibilities have been accepted for the origins of counting. The first is called the “cardinal” in which primitive people asked basic questions

job. I never liked Dr. Cable, from the time she was introduced in the book from the time David hit her with a crowbar and it was the last we heard of her. This line she said in the story really made my opinion about her enhanced because she gave Tally fault for a problem she did not cause. For people who don’t know me, that is one of my biggest pet peeves, when someone blames

numerals are still with us today. Just check the Super bowl statistics for a real life view of how we keep them in our Americanized society. Roman numerals appear to have started out as notches on tally sticks. These continued to be used by some Italian shepherds into the 19th century. I is a notch on the stick to represent one of something, II is two, III is three and early IIII was 4. Λ or V represented a hand, and five because of the fingers; X represents two hands, one inverted, and 10 for 10 fingers

theme is based on a movie theater. I have Popsicle sticks that have numbers 1-20 written on them. Students will draw a Popsicle stick and say the number aloud. They will then write the number on the dry erase paper I attached to the board. I created two enlarged ten frames. After the student writes the number they will use magnetic movie tickets and stick the number of movie tickets on the ten frame that represents the number on the popsicle stick the drew. Next the student will use fake popcorn and

improvements in the way we as Americans see math. Inventions such as the Ishango tally stick and the Lembambo tally stick, which were used as one of the first counting tools. When found, the bone only had 29 markings engraved into the Lebombo bone. This bone is about 35,000 years old, and is said to probably have been used to keep track of lunar or menstrual cycles, or could have been used for something as simple as just a measuring stick. The Lebombo bone is actually the fibula bone of a baboon and was used

to 35,000 BC and represents the calendar. Ishango bone is used as a tool, its dated way back in the Upper Paleolithic Era. Also a baboon bone and it has a quartz at the end of it for show or carvings. At first people thought it was used for a tally stick which is what the Lebembo bone is. The Ishango bone was found 1960 in Africa and the Lebembo bone was found in Swaziland. These two bones were thought to be a sophisticated

a novel placed in the future. The outline of the story is that a young girl named Tally is 15, going on 16. She is about to go through a pretty serious cosmetic surgery to make her “pretty.” Then, after she gets this surgery she can be on the pretty side of town with her friend Peris. On the pretty side of town is where the grass could be considered greener, it’s fun and carefree without a worry in the world. Tally and Shay are still unsure about undergoing the procedure just to become pretty, Shay