Author: Karen Ferrell

Grades K - 8

Explore Microsoft Excel’s unique capabilities and give students an experience that provides them with skills for a lifetime.

Lessons contain a teacher’s page, planning page, and step-by-step student instructions. The teacher’s page includes objectives, a quick grade-level appropriate guide, vocabulary utilized in the activity, and the filename of a completed sample lesson. Student planning pages are available for lessons that require pre-computer time student preparation. The easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions are broken down by Microsoft version and limited in most cases to two pages for easy copying and distribution to students.

More than a math tool!
The dice roller board game, scavenger hunt, crossword puzzle, graphs, and more are applicable to multiple curriculum areas.

Microsoft Excel can do that!
Use some of Excel’s little-know capabilities to generate number lines, find greatest common factors and least common multiples, convert Arabic numbers to Roman numerals, and more.

Topics for all curriculum areas:

Graphs Plotting a picture Dice roller game Frequency tables Crossword puzzles Mad libs Bingo cards

Scavenger hunt Family trees Calendar Budget Linkables Using Excel as a database

Math Topics:

Illustrated math operations Numbers chart through 100 Prime and composite numbers Addition and multiplication facts Number patterns Area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles Exploring Pi Estimating the area of a circle Expanded form Input/Output machines

Greatest common factors Least common multiples Division Roman numerals Exponents Absolute value Square roots Plotting points Budgets Stock market portfolio

Features and benefits:

Macintosh or Windows National objectives Grade-level guide Vocabulary list

Planning pages Step-by-step instructions for multiple versions of Microsoft Excel Sample completed projects

Includes instructions for Microsoft Office 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008.

Click on the links below to preview samples of this book.

• Table of Contents
• Sample

 

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