Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Designed for grades 4 to 8, this booklet and diskette include spreadsheet models and accompanying exercises that promote student thinking with numbers. The diskette requires the user to have the Better Working Spreadsheet. Students study various concepts, observe the displayed data resulting from their input in order to see patterns, and hone their prediction skills.
Activities involve number patterns, basic arithmetic, word problems, percents, and probability.
Models on the data disk include proportion solvers, common calculators, studies in standard and expanded notation, spreadsheets involving Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle, and models in simple probability that make use of the random number generator feature of the spreadsheet program. The activities can be used for whole class or small group work. The booklet provides accompanying exercises for each of the spreadsheet models. ENC does NOT distribute this resource. Department of Education.