Mrs. Lundy, a 1st grade teacher at Glen Lea, wanted to work on graphing with her students, but also wanted to incorporate the idea of skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, & 10’s.  Pixie is a fantastic program for introducing the idea of graphing to the primary grades.  By using the paint can, they can fill up the bar graph box by box until they have the correct number represented. As we dumped paint, we skip counted together.  The students did a great job, and they learned that bar graphs don’t always count by 1’s.  Sometimes the scale counts by 2’s, or 5’s, or even 10’s. Here are the graphs they completed:

After the students created each graph, we analyzed the graph for the favorite, least favorite, most, least, etc.  There are so many uses for these graphs and they are so simple to create on Pixie.  Sign up for a consult and I can show you how to make your own!