Teachers can leverage students’ curiosity to explore visual representations of data in an engaging way.

Storytelling and Surprising Depth At the Building Thinking Classrooms conference in Seattle this summer, I was struck by how powerful storytelling can be as an instructional strategy-- and how rarely....

Have foreign tourists really avoided America this summer? This graph from the Economist may look like a simple bar graph, but it asks the viewer to integrate ideas about both percentage change and also the actual change.

September is here, and so is the school year for my US friends. Start a habit of doing some problem solving in your math classes this year! Here is the 1990 Calendar of Problems from 35 years ago f…

Because doing wrong by them is just wrong

Cost (in USD $) per pound of Vehicles compared with per pound of Types of Cheesegraph by Andrew McCalip/Norma Gordon; slow reveal by Norma Gordon (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Original graph - McCalip, Andrew (@andrewmccalip). “Since we're talking manufacturing this week... I think a lot about the price of cheese vs vehicles per pound.” …

Best Selling Books in History (International)graph by James Eagle; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Sourc...