Graphing

School has been difficult lately. A few days of a cold, some extra little ones in the house that were a distraction, then a med change which got worse before it got better. Now we are playing catch-up. But as soon as he heard about a unit on graphing, he was all in.

A request to decide his survey question was easy and (obviously) followed the very popular (to Victor) Star Wars theme. His question: Who is your favorite Sith from Star Wars? He recorded a video with his question and I posted it on Facebook. His initial idea was to get 100 responses but after a day or two decided that this might have been a bit ambitious so we decided to go with 50 responses. 

We began by collecting our data. We put each Sith's name on a popsicle stick and into a cup. Then, as I read off the responses, he added a cube to that cup. When finished, he traded cubes for longs and counted the votes. He was disappointed that his vote, Darth Maul (who apparently has the best light saber - I wouldn't know) did not win and attempted to change the votes but I put a quick end to that idea.

Our first graph was a bar graph. In the land of visual impairment, at least at our house, Wikki Stix are our friend so we put a Wikki Stix line at the top of each bar. Later, we colored the bars in with marker.

The pie graph might just have been our favorite. Brightly colored foam, some with a different texture, helped to make this work for Victor.

A pictograph with tactile star stickers