Skip to content

$Light Blue Square$

$boy and girl in math class$

$Ratio speech bubble$

$Food cart$

$Woman$

$Math Comic$

Pixton for Math: Make Mathematical Thinking Visible

Pixton is a multimodal writing platform that helps students model problems, explain reasoning, apply math vocabulary, compare solution strategies, and demonstrate understanding. Students combine words, numbers, equations, and visuals to show how they think, not just the answer.

Try Pixton Free for 30 Days

Build Mathematical Understanding by Showing the Reasoning

Pixton helps students explain how and why mathematical solutions work. Students combine words, numbers, equations, visual models, captions, and sequences to break down multi-step problems, represent quantities and relationships, compare strategies, and apply math to real-world situations.

As students build their explanations panel by panel, teachers can see where reasoning is strong, where misconceptions appear, and where students need additional support.

What’s Inside Pixton’s Interactive Math Lessons

Pixton has tools and ready-to-use resources for multimodal math writing, problem solving, explanation, and assessment.

$Math Lesson Ideas$

Math Lesson Ideas

Save planning time with ready-to-use Pixton Lesson Ideas. Students can illustrate word problems, represent fractions and ratios, explore geometry, explain patterns, work through equations, compare strategies, and show their mathematical reasoning step by step.

Browse Math Lesson Ideas

Story Starters

Featured Content and Story Starters

Pixton’s Featured Content gives students characters, settings, objects, and other visuals they can use to place mathematics in meaningful contexts.

Story Starters provide another way to begin. Students might create and solve a word problem, explain an error, represent a mathematical relationship, compare two solution strategies, or show how math applies to a real-world situation.

Browse Math Story Starters

$Math Activity Maker$

Activity Maker

Create a math writing, problem-solving, or assessment activity in minutes with Pixton’s Activity Maker. Enter a mathematical concept, skill, or learning goal and generate an activity students can use to model, solve, explain, compare, or demonstrate understanding.

For supported standards, including Common Core Math, teachers can also create standards-connected activities.

Interactive Rubric

Interactive Rubric

Pixton includes an interactive rubric that helps students review their work before submitting it and gives teachers a consistent way to assess written and visual communication.

See the Interactive Rubric

Assessments

Assess Multimodal Math Work

The student decides	You can see
What order the panels go	Sequence and mathematical reasoning. Whether the steps follow logically and the student understands how one part of the solution leads to the next.
What the characters say	Mathematical vocabulary, explanation, justification, and reasoning in the student’s own words. Whether they can explain how and why a solution works.
What appears in each panel	Numbers, equations, diagrams, quantities, models, examples, mathematical accuracy and whether the representation matches the concept or problem.
How things change between panels	Operations, transformations, relationships, and cause and effect within the solution. Whether the student understands what changed and why.
Which strategies and representations they use	Conceptual understanding and strategy selection. Whether students can choose useful representations and connect words, visuals, numbers, and symbols to communicate their thinking.

Start Your Free Trial

$Calculator$

Why Use Pixton for Math?

$two boys at laptop$
Show Reasoning, Not Just Answers

Pixton gives students a structured way to explain how they solved a problem. Each panel can capture a step, representation, or decision, helping teachers see the reasoning behind the answer and identify misconceptions more easily.
$female math teacher$
Make Abstract Math More Concrete

Students combine mathematical notation with words, diagrams, visual models, and real-world situations to represent concepts such as fractions, ratios, geometry, patterns, algebra, measurement, and data.
$math classroom$
Designed to Make Your Day Easier

Start with ready-to-use Lesson Ideas, Featured Content, Story Starters, rubrics, and the Activity Maker instead of building every math activity from scratch.

Pixton can support anything from a quick check for understanding to repeated opportunities for students to explain their mathematical thinking throughout a unit.

Why Pixton Works for Math

Learner Variability badge

Pixton gives students another way to demonstrate mathematical understanding by combining explanation, visual representation, sequencing, and problem solving. Instead of seeing only a final answer, teachers can see how students approached the problem, represented mathematical relationships, and communicated their reasoning.

Pixton is also backed by independent validation and research into multimodal learning, writing, comprehension, and student engagement. Pixton meets ESSA Tier 2 evidence standards and has earned Digital Promise certifications for Research-Based Design and Learner Variability.

Explore Pixton Research & Evidence

Testimonials

Deanna H. – Teacher

New York, United States

It's a fun and engaging alternative product to demonstrate learning while reinforcing literacy. I teach math and use this as an extension.
Patrick W. – Teacher

Ontario, Canada

Pixton is versatile, supporting a wide range of subjects beyond ELA… such as history, science, and math, by allowing students to create comics that explain concepts.
Jeremy D. – Teacher

Mississippi, United States

Love it! It can be used in any subject with any kind of learner. In history class and depicting an aspect of the American Revolution, in vocabulary being able to explain and show the term without stating the term, in math explaining ratios or word problems.
Kerry N. – Teacher

Illinois, United States

So many creative ways to use Pixton, from writing math word problems to practicing figurative language!
Tara T. – Teacher

Iowa, United States

I primarily use it to rewrite math summative assessments featuring all of the students in my classroom. Every child loves to see their own Pixton and it increases the motivation and engagement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Teachers can use Pixton for word problems, mathematical explanations, modeling, vocabulary, problem solving, and assessment. Students combine words, numbers, equations, and visuals to show their reasoning.
Pixton lets students break problems into steps and use captions, dialogue, equations, diagrams, and visual models to explain what they did and why.
Yes. Teachers can use Pixton to see students’ reasoning, mathematical accuracy, vocabulary, sequencing, and ability to represent concepts in different ways.
Pixton supports standards-connected math activities, including Common Core Math. Teachers can also create activities around specific mathematical concepts, skills, and learning goals.
Students can turn word problems into visual sequences that show the situation, identify relevant information, work through the steps, and explain how they reached their solution.