Benefits of Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets offer students many benefits for teachers. They allow teachers to engage studnets in exploring real life issues and solving problems. Spreadsheets allow teachers to:
-organize large sets of data
-calculate lots of numbers
-analyze and make decisions
-create graphs for visual learners

Spreadsheets also benefit students in many ways. Spreadsheets promote some 21st centure skills like critical thinking and information literacy. Spreadsheets also require that students:
-locate and analyze data
-analyze
-format data
-perform calculations on data
-change one variable at a time
-interpret visualizations of data

I will most likely use spreadsheets nad databases in my classroom. I will be teacher math, and math is alot of numbers. Using spreadsheets with numbers to organize seems like a very good idea. I will also use a apreadsheet to keep my students grades.