In short, students engage in mental activities which promote critical thinking. By middle school many students have already learned to use computers for keyboarding, word processing and some multimedia. Some may have experience with drill and practice math software.
Spreadsheets introduce a new application that can be used for problem solving in math and science.
Students need experience with all areas that a productivity package provides -word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, database, communications. Independent short projects After doing many practice spreadsheets and manipulating files that have already been set up for them students should be ready to solve a problem on their own. You have to develop your own spreadsheet. Listed below are several suggestions for a spreadsheet computer project. Read all of the before you make a decision.