Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Using Spreadsheets in Classroom Instruction

Excel is used in some classrooms to explain math in a more hands on way. It is used to demonstrate how to solve problems with repeated change, surveys, and graphing real world statistics such as exploring mortgage rates at different time periods. They also use spreadsheet to do fun stuff in science! For an example, one class used it to calculate how much they would weigh on Mars. After they calculated it for themselves, they made a spreadsheet for other people to be able to figure out how much they would weigh themselves. After reading various ideas on the web, I have found out spreadsheets could be used for various fun and exciting activities!

Spreadsheets Link

1 comment:

BARBARA said...

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