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Getting Started • Articles • Books • Peer-Reviewed Articles • Blog Posts • Other Mentions
Getting Started
- Jenna Laib, “The Power of Slow Reveal Graphs.” Edutopia: September 19, 2025.
- Jaclyn Borowski & Sarah D. Sparks, “Graphs Are Hard for Students to Digest. Can a ‘Slow Reveal’ Help?” EducationWeek: July 31, 2023.
- Marilyn Burns, “My First Ever Slow Reveal Graph“
- Brian Bushart, “Trick or Treat” & “The Slow Reveal“
- Dylan Kane, “Slow Reveal Graphs Are Awesome“
- Ben Orlin, “What Graphs Reveal (If You Give Them Time)“
Recommended Articles
Borowski, Jaclyn, and Sarah D. Sparks. “Graphs Are Hard for Students to Digest. Can a ‘Slow Reveal’ Help?” Education Week, 31 July 2023, www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/graphs-are-hard-for-students-to-digest-can-a-slow-reveal-help/2023/07
Sparks, Sarah D. “Teaching About Data Can Mean Leading Challenging Discussions.” Education Week, 31 July 2023, www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teaching-about-data-can-mean-leading-challenging-discussions/2023/07.
Stebbins, Abigail, and Amy Brass. “Social Studies+ Mathematics: Using a Slow Reveal Graph to Explore Black Members of Congress in US History.” Social Studies and the Young Learner 37.4 (2025): 16-25.
Books
Slow Reveal Graphs are featured in the following books:
Brass, Amy. “Case 2: Revealing Community Connections Through Slow Reveal Graphs.” Building Community to Center Equity and Justice in Mathematics Teacher Education, edited by Courtney Koestler and Eva Thanheiser, Emerald Publishing, 2025, pp. 41-58.
Champagne, Zak. Curious Kids in the Math Classroom. Routledge, 2027.
Peart Crayton, Deborah. Readers Read. Writers Write. Mathers Math!: Bridging the Gap Between Literacy and Mathematics. Corwin, 2025.
Shreiner, Tamara L. Teaching Data Literacy in Social Studies: Principles and Practices to Support Historical Thinking and Civic Engagement. Teachers College Press, 2024.
Wills, Theresa. Teaching Math at a Distance, Grades K-12: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction. Corwin, 2020.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Giadas, Pablo, Laura Muñiz Rodríguez, and Luis J. Rodríguez-Muñiz. “Slow Reveal Graphs y niveles de lectura de gráficos en la formulación de problemas estadísticos.” AIEM. Avances de Investigación en Educación Matemática, vol. 28, 2025, pp. 165-190, doi.org/10.35763/aiem28.7549.
Hipps, Nina, and Jacqueline Bruhn. “Using Slow Reveal Graphs to Build Data Literacy Skills and Increase Student Engagement.” Science Scope 49.1 (2026): 13-20.
Hunter, Chris. “Slow Reveal Graphs.” Vector, vol. 61, no. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 15-18.
Stebbins, Abigail, and Amy Brass. “Social Studies+ Mathematics: Using a Slow Reveal Graph to Explore Black Members of Congress in US History.” Social Studies and the Young Learner 37.4 (2025): 16-25.
Taurence, Kristen, et al. “Revealing the Power of Data Visualizations in Social Studies Through Slow Reveal Graphs.” Statistics Teacher, 23 Mar. 2022, www.statisticsteacher.org/2022/03/23/slowrevealgraphs/.
Yeh, Cathery, et al. “Variability in Action: How data shapes children’s understanding of the natural world.” Science and Children 63.1 (2026): 90-95.
Blog Posts
The following posts are a good primer on this routine. You can also read some of my additional thoughts on the Slow Reveal Graphs blog here: Blindspots and Asynchronous Slow Reveal Graphs.
Brian Bushart Trick or Treat! • The Slow Reveal • August 2017
Jenna Laib “Why is the math teacher here for social studies?” • Notice, Feel, Wonder, and Act • Using Videos to Reflect on Practice, Student Identity, and Agency • Using Slow Reveals to Illuminate Tiny but Powerful Details in Graphs • Blindspots • How Do We Measure Change? • Aligning Slow Reveal Graphs to the UN Sustainable Development Goals • Digging Into Data Sources • Facilitation Tip: First Slide Print Out
Dylan Kane Slow Reveal Graphs Are Awesome
Ben Orlin What Graphs Reveal (If You Give Them Time)
Marilyn Burns My First Ever Slow Reveal Graph
Chris Hunter New York Times: What’s Going On In This Graph?
Brian One graph. Ten minutes. An important conversation.
Kassia Wedekind Playing Around with Data, Part 1 • Part 2 • Students as Reasoners in the Hands-Down Conversation
Andy Cotgreave The importance of data storytelling in the next decade of data
Other Mentions
Alsina, Ángel, and Claudia Alejandra Vásquez Ortiz. “Itinerarios de enseñanza de la estadística (3-12 años): Una herramienta para el diseño de tareas.” Uno: revista de didáctica de las matemáticas, 2024, vol. 104, p. 8-14 (2024).
Boote, Stacy K., and Terrie M. Galanti. “Using a productive disciplinary engagement framework to analyze early childhood teachers’ implementations of student-centered mathematics routines.” Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (2026): 1-27.
Bump, Sarah, et al. “Advancing Justification, Advancing Equity.” Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, vol. 119, no. 8, 2026, pp. 651-661, doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2025.0209.
Burgos Navarro, María José, and Alicia Bruno. “La importancia de la formulación de problemas en el desarrollo de conocimiento matemático.” (2025).
Burwell, Holly, and Sue Chapman. Power Up Your Math Community: A 10-Month Practice-Based Professional Learning Guide, Grades K-5. Corwin, 2024.
Elliott, Rebekah, and Sarah A. Roberts. “Studio as a Catalyst for Incremental and Ambitious Teacher Learning.” Education Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11, 2024, p. 1160, doi.org/10.3390/educsci14111160.
Fletcher, Nicole, and B. Waid. “Building communities of care for equity, justice, and culturally responsive practice in mathematics education.” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 14.2 (2024): 369-422. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.ZVWH1822. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol14/iss2/12
Griffith, Jonathan, et al. “From Puzzles to Discovery: Building Students’ Data Sensemaking Skills Through Authentic Science Investigations.” The Science Teacher 93.1 (2026): 24-31.
Joswick, Candace, Linda Krauser Williams, and Matt Felton-Koestler. “‘That’s Where I Sit!’: A Slow Reveal of the Coordinate Plane.” Ohio Journal of School Mathematics, vol. 102, 2026, p. 84.
Kacerja, Suela, et al. “Introducing Investigative Approaches in Mathematics Teacher Education: A Case Study from Albania.” Education Sciences 16.7 (2026): 1126.
Magnuson, Christine Gonderinger, and Austin Gaskin. “Embodying Radical Queer-Allyship As (STEM) Teacher Activism.” Moving from Traditional to Transformative Curriculum and Pedagogy (2026): 152.
Negrelli, Madeline, Marilyn Ortiz, and Bridget Druken. “Bridging Math Content and Teaching through Pre-Service Undergraduate Apprenticeship.” Ohio Journal of School Mathematics 93 (2023): 48-57.
Robertson, Judy, et al. “Plants, volcanoes and crocodiles: learning about data literacy pedagogical practices from primary school teachers.” 20 Jun. 2023.
Ravi, Prerna, et al. “” Data comes from the real world”: A Constructionist Approach to Mainstreaming K12 Data Science Education.” Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference V. 1. 2024.
Salac, Jean, et al. “Funds of knowledge used by adolescents of color in scaffolded sensemaking around algorithmic fairness.” Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research-Volume 1. 2023.
Thrasher, E., et al. “Making Sense of Data Visualizations: A Toolkit for Supporting Student Discussions.” Statistics Teacher, Fall 2024, American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Wilkerson, Michelle H., et al. “How Teachers Envision Using Data Visualization Discussion Tasks in Classroom Instruction: How Teachers Envision Using Data Visualization Discussion Tasks in Classroom Instruction.” International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education 23.7 (2025): 2653-2687.