Chapter 5: Counting the Treasure
The Trend Line
"Going up or going down?"
Curious Cat sliding down a line on a graph like a slide.
About this page
Leave it to Curious Cat to find the playground hiding inside a graph. On page 67, the trend line becomes a slide, and the ride itself teaches the lesson: lines on graphs go up or down, and which way they lean tells a story. More cookies eaten each day, line goes up. Less daylight each evening, line goes down. This kind of direction-spotting is a friendly first step into the pattern work at the center of Chapter 5, Counting the Treasure. Children who can say it is going up are already reading data, no numbers required yet.
Talk about it while you color
- Is Curious Cat sliding up or down, and how can you tell?
- What is something that keeps getting bigger as you grow?
- If your happiness today were a slide, would it be going up or down right now?