This is usually kept in check by using tally marks.

Tally marks represent one such system still in common use.

He'd tried to keep track of days by scratching tally marks in the wall.

Several names followed, and high school students registered their votes with tally marks.

He has the number of people he had killed written in tally marks on his skin.

After close study they say the lines could represent a tree, a map, a leaf or even tally marks.

Tally marks could be used to assist this process.

You should end up with a list of answers to each question and these should have tally marks against them.

Two larger pieces of bone had possible tally marks.

Choose an appropriate recording method, such as tally marks, to collect data.

Alternatively, player 2 will make tally marks instead of drawing a swirl.

It is merely a sophisticated system of "tally marks" that does not use place notation at all.

Tally marks are typically clustered in groups of five for legibility.

Pupils may need help in using tally marks.

Choose whether the most or fewest tally marks wins.

Points or rayas ("lines", so named for the tally marks used to keep score) are gained in play.

Add up the number of tally marks in each row and record them in the final column entitled Frequency.

In stem and leaf plots, tally marks are not required because the actual data are used.

Thus, while a long row of tally marks might be in order, it would be quite unwieldy to handle.

He chose three small scraps of wood, scrawled tally marks on them, and went over to a heavy chest.

Bones and other artifacts have been discovered with marks cut into them that many believe are tally marks.

Early systems of counting using tally marks appear in the Upper Paleolithic.

It has a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the tool.

Tally marks appear for each person.

But that should not be separate paper work, Captain; it need only be a column of tally marks on the regular weekly report.