Monday, July 23, 2018

5 WAYS TO USE EXCEL FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS



Dyscalculia is one of the common disorders observed in understanding and working with numbers.  Learners not only need to understand the core principles of mathematics as a subject but learn manipulations of the numbers and their operations to tune it to their benefit.
Excel is the simplest tool which can be used in school mathematics to understand the number manipulations
The basic format of excel incorporates some special features as given in the images below


Common use of excel sheet used in classrooms can be
  1. Number systems – Set numbers in ascending (A to Z) or descending (Z to A), sort, filter compare etc.,
  2. Basic operations and calculations – Understanding how operations works on various number system like – Integers, fractions, decimals etc., can be studied using excel sheets
  3. Statistics – Finding out mean, median mode, deviations, variance is part of data analysis and the best tool which suits the purpose is excel
  4. Graphs and Charts – Learning about various representations of data is essential, what best feature than use excel and manipulate data to see how the graph changes
  5. Trigonometry – Best way to understand the angles and length variation in triangles is the use trigonometry in excel.


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