Microsoft Excel is a great instructional tool for teachers and students to use in the classroom. It enables us to organize and manage numerical data in an efficient and productive way. Teachers can use Excel to keep budgets and grade books, create schedules, and make attendance lists, which helps them save time when making calculations or storing data. It also encourages them to organize displays of information in effective ways. In addition, Excel could be helpful in teaching mathematical topics and could increase students' motivation to work with math concepts. Since Excel is so hands-on, students get to organize their data or create graphs in a fun, stimulating, and engaging way. Other subjects could be incorporated using Excel as well, which makes this tool have such a great impact in the classroom.
Here are two examples of projects I did in my graduate course using Excel:
The possibilities on Excel are endless! There are so many charts and graph options you can explore. There are also various ways you can organize or store different kinds of information. I made charts and graphs on the percentage of colors in skittle bags and Santa's elf shopping list. These are just some of my examples, but you can effectively integrate this tool into the classroom using core curriculum ideas. Excel is such a beneficial tool and I believe teachers should learn how to use it and incorporate it into lessons in their classrooms!
