Spreadsheet Skills

Created by David Penrose (San Juan College) on July 19, 2005

Unlike Word Processing, perhaps the use of 'spreadsheets' is less popular. The importance for a software figure management and analysis software remains. Consider this description at wikipedia.

A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. (It is, therefore, a kind of matrix.) The word came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item (text and/or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present bookkeeping ledgers -- with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect, for example -- which were traditionally a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger (= book for keeping accounting records) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

TXT: the .txt file extension or text format is spreadsheet files which is ASCII characters only.
CSV: the .csv or comma separated values are text files with commas seperating each value.
TAB: this format represents values that are separated by tabs.
RESOURCES: Standards in Education for Spreadsheets
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Spreadsheets for Educators
click here
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics
click here
Using MS Excel in the Classroom
click here
Using Spreadsheets in Mathematics Education
click here
An Excel Shortcourse for Teachers
click here

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		Spreadsheet Skills Created by David Penrose (San Juan College) on July 19, 2005 Unlike Word Processing, perhaps the use of 'spreadsheets' is less popular. The importance for a software figure management and analysis software remains. Consider this description at wikipedia. A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. (It is, therefore, a kind of matrix.) The word came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item (text and/or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present bookkeeping ledgers -- with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect, for example -- which were traditionally a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger (= book for keeping accounting records) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper. TXT the .txt file extension or text format is spreadsheet files which is ASCII characters only. CSV the .csv or comma separated values are text files with commas seperating each value. TAB this format represents values that are separated by tabs. RESOURCES Standards in Education for Spreadsheets click here Spreadsheets for Educators click here The Association of Teachers of Mathematics click here Using MS Excel in the Classroom click here Using Spreadsheets in Mathematics Education click here An Excel Shortcourse for Teachers click here David David's blog Login or register to post comments 3118 reads
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