Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets can be used in the classroom for many different task/assignments: making calculations, organizing data, making charts, averaging grades, and so much more. Both teachers and students can use spreadsheets. Teachers can use it to create assignments for their students and to average student’s grades. Students can use it to develop higher order thinking skills by using spreadsheets in assignments making charts and calculations.

            Some advantages of spreadsheets are that they are normally easy to use and create. Sometimes they can be hard to following depending on how they are created though. Spreadsheets can be used for many different grades levels. They also allow students to be creative with the many different choice they have in creating charts. A great advantage of spreadsheets is using functions, which calculates the sum, mean, product, or anything else you can think of for the columns and rows of numbers.

            Spreadsheets achieve the Nets for Students standards because they allow students to be creative and to communicate throughout the process of creating a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are great for research projects and collecting information. Students also use technology affectivity and productively when using spreadsheets.