Odd Squad
Votes for Otto
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With Oksana's help Otto gets a few votes. Polly Graph explains how tally marks work.
With Oksana's help Otto gets a few votes. Polly Graph explains how tally marks work.
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Odd Squad
Votes for Otto
Clip | 1m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
With Oksana's help Otto gets a few votes. Polly Graph explains how tally marks work.
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Oren has a bunch of votes crossed out!
- No.
- No?
- No.
- I'm hearing a lot of nos.
- This diagonal line is actually the fifth tally mark.
So Oren had 1, 2, 3, 4 votes, and then he got one more vote, which is this one here.
So Oren has 5 votes total in this cluster.
- I don't think she knows what she's doing.
- She does, it just lets her count faster.
Instead of counting each tally mark one by one, she can count each cluster of 5 tally marks, so she's skip-counting by 5.
- I can totally hear you, guys.
This room isn't very big.
- Sorry.
- Check it out.
Oren has 5 tally marks here and 5 tally marks here, so that's 5, 10.
He has 10 votes, and Otto has 1, 2, 3, 4 votes.
- So how many agents have voted in total?
- We can find that out by adding your votes and Oren's votes together.
Oren has 10 votes, plus the 4 votes you have, equals 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
So 14 agents have voted.
- But there are 31 agents that can vote.
You still have a chance, Otto.
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