Excel Spreadsheets in Secondary Math Education

Seth BodenmillerTroy Opperman

Megan Schlosser

What is Excel? How can it be used in math? How can the Standards be incorporated? Works Cited Exercises

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Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet application that can be used to store, organize, display, and manipulate numbers, percentages, and other numerical data.

Microsoft Excel organizes data and has tools that enable you to sort information and generate charts from the spreadsheet data.

Common Terms◦ Workbook, Sheet, Cells, Rows, Columns

Credit: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2013

What is Excel?

Excel can be used as a manipulative to make sense of numbers and data through visual representation. Excel can also be used to organize data for both students and teachers.

Excel can be used in teaching probability and statistics, to help with experiments, to organize data, to generate charts, and to graph functions. You can also perform different mathematical functions and calculations.

How can Excel be used in Math?

SMPs◦ Make sense of problems and persevere in solving

them.◦ Reason abstractly and quantitatively.◦ Model with mathematics.◦ Use appropriate tools strategically.◦ Attend to precision.◦ Look for and make use of structure.◦ Look for and express regularity and repeated

reasoning.

How are the Standards incorporated?

French, T. (2013). What is Microsoft Excel and When Would I Use it?. Retrieved from http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/tipsandfaqs/f/excel_use.htm

(n.d.). Ideas for Using Excel in the Classroom. Retrieved from http://learntech.ties.k12.mn.us/Excel_Classroom_Projects

President and Fellows of Harvard College. (2013). Microsoft Excel Information and Support. Retrieved from http://it.hms.harvard.edu/pg.asp?pn=software_excel

Works Cited

Time to Exercise!