Tally On

Determine

What Does Child Do To Use Skill In The Game?
Players need to determine which number combinations are possible and which card to play on their turn.

How Parents Can Assist Learning
Determining number combinations is straight forward in Tally On. However, when children are first learning to play the game, parents can encourage them to "Wait. Look. Think." This will help with impulsivity, considering number combination options and looking closely. Also, using such cues can give children a model for future play in order to think more strategically.

Learning Implications and Educator Support
Determining number combinations is straight forward in Tally On. However, when children are first learning to play the game, educators can encourage them to "Wait. Look. Think." This will help with impulsivity, considering number combination options and looking closely. Also, using such cues can give children a model for future play in order to think more strategically.

Tally On presents an opportunity to learn about adding, counting and counting on. Teachers can integrate Tally On into appropriate activities throughout the day for generalization and practice.

Practice

What Does Child Do To Use Skill In The Game?
As children play Tally On, they are a practicing and improving their adding, counting and counting on skills.

How Parents Can Assist Learning
No special adult support is required. However, as children become proficient at counting up to 21, parents can introduce higher numbers by making their own target tiles that replace the Truck Tile.

Learning Implications and Educator Support
No special adult support is required. However, as children become proficient at counting up to 21, educators can introduce higher numbers by making their own target tiles that replace the Truck Tile. Or, allow a different child at the beginning of each game to declare a number between 21 and 50.

Solve

What Does Child Do To Use Skill In The Game?
Players build solving skills by adapting to the changing total on the play area in order to decide what card to play on their turn.

How Parents Can Assist Learning
Solving simple addition problems is the primary goal of the Tally On, allowing young children to practice and master important addition, counting and counting on skills. Parents can encourage children to explain why they chose a certain card, as well as how they solved the problem. If children produce incorrect mathematical results, parents can work with child to examine the problem to help them learn the correct approach.

Learning Implications and Educator Support
Solving simple addition problems is the primary goal of the Tally On, allowing young children to practice and master important addition, counting and counting on skills. Educators can encourage children to explain why they chose a certain card, as well as how they solved the problem. If children produce incorrect mathematical results, educators can work with child to examine the problem to help them learn the correct procedures.

Demonstrate

What Does Child Do To Use Skill In The Game?
Players demonstrate their counting and adding skills as they count out loud during game play.

How Parents Can Assist Learning
No special adult support is needed, since players are required to demonstrate as part of the game play. If children produce incorrect mathematical results, parents can work with child to examine the problem to help them learn the correct approach.

Learning Implications and Educator Support
No special adult support is needed, since players are required to demonstrate as part of the game play. If children produce incorrect mathematical results, teachers can work with child to examine the problem to help them learn the correct approach.

Cognitive

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
Make sure the child can count to 11 before starting. If the child cannot count to 11, the game is not appropriate. Use the Truck Tile with the 11 face up. Use pennies as counters to help the child learn to count on. For example, the Draw card is 6. First, ask the child to count the boxes on the card and ask, "What number is next?" Then, have the child create a line of 6 pennies counting them one at time. If the child chooses a 3 card to play, have the child count out the 6 pennies in front of him or her. Then have them look at the number on the play pile and ask again, "What comes after 6? Use the pennies see if you picked the right number. This is 7, 8 and 9 .... count out one penny with each number added." This will demonstrate how to count on in a concrete way, and illustrate that the child chose a number that creates a total of 9.
Use the 11 Truck Tile. If the child has difficulty understanding adding number to 10, remove the 5, 6, and 10. Use the numbers 1, 2, and 3, as these are the first children can visualize mentally without actually physically counting items. As the child begins to understand the counting on process add in the 5 and 6 cards.
Remind the child that the goal is to be the player who has a card that brings the total to 11. As the number on the play pile gets higher, encourage the child to figure out what number is needed to reach the total. Allow children to use their fingers or pennies as a means of determining this.

Communication

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
Children need to verbalize their counting in the game. If they cannot count aloud, let them demonstrate with their fingers or small objects, such as pennies.
Children need to understand the verbal directions to play the game. If the child has difficulty comprehending the verbal directions, physically demonstrate the game process.

Sensorimotor

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
If children have difficulty manipulating all their cards in one hand, use a card holder made from thick paper or thin cardboard folded to make a vertical ledge to hold the cards.s

Social Emotional/Behavioral

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
Children with impulsive behavior may choose a card without thinking. Encourage these children to "count in your head before you choose a card."
Children who become frustrated when they lose may get upset if they never win a pile of cards. Make sure the child understands how to count on by first playing to 11. Caution the child to figure out the best card to play before laying down a card. Have all players describe their thinking when they lay down a card. This will demonstrate how other players determine which card to pick, which in turn can help the child learn how to select the best card on their turn.

Vision

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
Numbers on the cards are not large and the visuals are not high contrast, so children with low vision may have difficulty playing Tally On.

Hearing

Suggestions for How to Modify Play Experience
Although players need to count aloud, players who are deaf and hard of hearing can still play. Allow them to count using sign language. They may not, however, hear if another player is counting on appropriately.
To support learning and communication, have all players count using sign language.

*Data compiled from CCSSI ELA Standards, WA Science Standards, and Washington Social Studies Standards

Extra Ways to Play the Game
If you have blocks or other fun things to stack, build a structure next to the discarded pile with the same number of items as on the cards laid down.

Materials Needed
Blocks, plastic plates or bowls, or other safe stackable objects.

Developmental Benefits
Using concrete objects makes the counting more meaningful and shows that many objects can be manipulated to equal the same number.

Extra Ways to Play the Game
If players cannot play a card, but can match a card to one on the top of the pile, they can take the matching cards and put them into the discard pile. After removing the card, the players turn ends. This subtracts a number from the prior total and gives both players a new options.

Materials Needed
No additional materials needed.

Developmental Benefits
This option adds a new math operation (subtraction) to the game. The child can determine the new total number after subtracting the number on the discarded card from the total in the pile. This also adds a new element of strategy to the game, as players now can change the path of the round.

Extra Ways to Play the Game
When playing the 21 truck, roll the die for each round of the game. The first player then chooses either the total number on the truck or the number on the die.

Materials Needed
No additional materials needed.

Developmental Benefits
This alternative gives players the option for choosing lower or higher numbers, for lesser or greater challenge. Children who are not as confident or skilled with numbers may prefer the smaller numbers.

Extra Ways to Play the Game
Roll the die and add the number on the die to the 21 on the truck tile. This becomes the new target total.

Materials Needed
No additional materials needed.

Developmental Benefits
This option will provide a much larger target number, requiring more addition to get to the total. This is good for children who have already mastered the counting on skills to 11 and 21.