Friday, February 26, 2010
Spreadsheets
I will not be using spread sheets with my students, because they will be in the younger grades. I will however be using it for my grade book and for my personal class library inventory. I love spreadsheets for my personal use, I use them all the time. I think that it would be fun though, when they are learning about collecting data to have them conduct surveys and give me the results. I would then make the spread sheet for them and then show them the pie charts and explain the information to them.
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It's funny because spreadsheets are perfect for gradebooks and I didn't even think about that for my classroom! You really can use spreadsheets in any profession it feels like!
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of showing the children a spreadsheet. Though I agree that they're not old enough to make them themselves, I think spreadsheets are a good way to help them understand that the information that goes into the spreadsheet changes the graph. I definitely think I'll be showing them spreadsheets!
ReplyDeleteI like that you mentioned putting the information in to show your students the pie chart. At young ages it would be difficult and confusing for the students to input the info, but as a teacher it should only take a second and the results should excite the students.
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what I think.
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