1. Spreadsheets An electronic spreadsheet package is an application package that enables you to carry out numerical work easily and flexibly. It enables you to store not only numerical data but also formulae to carry out operations on the numerical data.

2. Relative Advantage Manage data in various formats Complete essential calculations quickly Automatic recalculation Saves Time

3. A way to view data in various formats (enable students to make important visual discoveries about their data.) Relative Advantage Creates Charts

4. Relative Advantage Visualize the impact of changes in numbers. Lets you create a plan, plug in different assumptions and immediately see the impact on the bottom line. “What-if” Questions

5. Relative Advantage Make working with numbers more fun Graphical representation of data Motivational

6. Spreadsheets in the Classroom Grade keeping Cheque books Budgets Attendance charts Performance assessment checklists Teacher Productivity

7. Spreadsheets in the Classroom Demonstrations (concepts such as multiplication and percentages) Student Products (charts and graphs) Support for Problem Solving (Allow students to focus on higher level concepts) Storing & Analyzing Data Projecting grades Instructional Activities

8. Features of Excel Equivalent or Similar to Word In Excel, all the basic commands such as Open, New, Close, Save and Save As, work in the same way as they do in Word. The only difference to note is that when you save an Excel file it is given the file extension.xls Other features which are similar are Spell Check, Find and Replace, Page Setup for margins, Page Orientation, and many of the formatting features.

9. Spreadsheets Formulae Functions Absolute cell references Filtering records IF function Vlookup Features

10. Formulae A formula is an instruction to perform operations on values. Depending on the package you are using, a formula must start with one of the following a special symbols (e.g. +, –, @, =) to identify it as a formula. All formulas in excel start with an equal sign (=).formula

11. Functions