This book is a gentle introduction to the use of spreadsheets for organization of information and arithmetic computing. Learn the basics of cells, formulas, and Excel's built-in functions. Learn how to create impactful charts and graphs based on your data.

Provides information on the basics of Microsoft Excel and how to effectively use the spreadsheet program in the classroom.

Humberto Barreto shows professors how to teach macroeconomic models and incorporate data using Microsoft Excel® with free files and videos.

Addressing a classroom teacher's need to simultaneous manage a classroom full of students, meet state mandated assessment standards for students, and track students' performance against a rubric, this overview of Excel shows how to put its features to use immediately in a classroom. Tracking attendance, grades, and books in the school library, creating reports to share with parents at parent-teacher conference time, and teaching basic charting concepts in a mathematics class are among the possible uses of Excel covered in this guide.

The essential how-to for teachers at all grade levels, this book is filled with specific, classroom-tested templates and techniques that teachers need most.

This guide to enabling middle-grade mathematics teachers to use Microsoft Excel in the classroom focuses primarily on concepts taught in grades 4&–10, with some pre-algebra lessons for higher grades. Including files available for downloading to create custom math worksheets, build self-grading interactive spreadsheets, and use Excel to demonstrate charts and Cartesian math, this handbook provides fun examples of probability, solving equations, magic squares, and compound interest.