1. Introduction to Spreadsheets Microsoft Excel

2. What is a spreadsheet? Enter data. Analyze data. Make graphs.

3. Essential Question How do I use the program Microsoft Excel to create graphs?

4. Lesson Essential Question What sample data am I going to use to create graphs?

5. Skittles Project!

6. Sorting before eating. 1. Estimate how many skittles of each color that you might have and write it on your data sheet. 2. Sort your skittles according to color and write how many of each color you have on your data sheet. 3. Eat your skittles!

7. Terms and functions Cell Row Column Formula bar Save Open file Alignment Font Size Copy Paste Undo

8. Using Microsoft Excel 3. Open Microsoft Excel. 4. Enter the colors into Column A.

9. Using Microsoft Excel 5. Enter the number of each color skittles you had in Column B.

10. Creating a chart/graph I will create a graph of how my team did at bat last game and you will use your skittles data

11. Creating a chart/graph 6. Select your data set

12. Creating a chart/graph 7. Click Insert, then Chart

13. Creating a chart/graph 8. Choose the chart type (Pie). 9. On the right, choose the Exploded Pie.

14. Creating a chart/graph 10. Press next again

15. Creating a chart/graph 11. Give your chart a name

16. Creating a chart/graph 12. Click on the Data Labels tab. Click on show percent and press finish.

17. Creating a chart/graph Done!

18. A few question for you to work on…

19. Spreadsheets can make math easy! Example: Let’s say that you have 5 green skittles and Chad has 1.8 times more green skittles than you; how many green skittles does he have?

20. Entering formulas 1. Click on an empty cell.

21. Entering Formulas 2. Type =(notice what you type goes in the formula bar.)

22. Entering Formulas 2. (cont.) Enter your formula. For us enter “5*1.8”.

23. Entering formulas 2. (cont.) Press enter

24. REMEMBER… + Is for addition - Is for subtraction * Is for multiplication / Is for division Also remember that before any formula you must enter an equals sign (=).

25. A few questions for you to work on…

26. Entering formulas 1. Select cell A-7 and type “Total”

27. Using formulas with data 2. In cell B7 type “=B1+B2+B3+B4+B5” and press enter.

28. Using formulas with data Notice that when you click on the values you want to add up is puts in the name of the cell.

29. Let’s find the average 3. Select cell A8 and type in “Average”.

30. Using formulas with data 4. To find the average number of skittles per color we must divide the total number of skittles by the number of colors (5).

31. Using formulas with data 5. Select cell B8. We already found the total in B7, so in B8 type “=B7/5” and press enter.

32. Interesting…very interesting Notice that if you change the number of any color you had, the total and average change automatically.

33. A few questions for you to work on…