Week 7

this week was all about using Microsoft Excel…a program i’m quite familiar with: i used it throughout my senior maths classes, from years 9 to 12. this week’s workshop was a good opportunity, however, to refresh my memory on the different shortcuts and formulas to use on a spreadsheet to calculate things like averages, highest and lowest scores, and rankings. many of these skills were forgotten when i finished high school – before this week’s workshop i hadnt used excel in quite a long time.

we also looked at the importance and usefullness of excel in keeping ‘grade books’ for students..with portfolio item #5’s task being to create a grade book with data presented using graphs and tables on excel. this will be something i will definitely be utilising as a teacher – keeping track of students’ academic achievement is important in keeping track of their progress, as well as using in reports and to discuss with parents at parent-teacher interviews.

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