Technology of Excel in the Classroom

I wanted to talk about Microsoft Excel as an awesome technological tool for the classroom. Excel, as we learned, is part of the Microsoft Office Suite, and is ultimately a workbook comprising of spreadsheets. Excel is great for making tables, charts, and graphs. You can perform calculations through the use of functions. This software makes it easy to color-code your charts to make them aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Excel is also great for keeping records and staying organized.

As future teachers, we know that it will be imperative that we stay organized in our record-keeping and grading. We can use Microsoft Excel to keep track of our students and their information- such as parents names, phone numbers, and e-mails. It will also be important to document our phone and e-mail conversations with parents about student behavior and grades, so that a record is alway kept in check. Outlook is an excellent tool for this, as well as for the grade-book itself. Specifically as mathematics instructors, we will be able to teach graphing relations through the use of Excel. When teaching our students about mean, median, and mode, we can give them numbers to enter into tables, and create graphs from that data. Excel will give the students a simple, organized, and accurate representation of those numbers so that they are better able to grasp their meaning in the specific problem. The use of Excel in my classroom will aid in my students learning because it will engage them.

Here is data entered into the spreadsheet.

And here is the data in an organized, colorful bar chart