Blog 4

Before doing this assignment, I had already had a good amount of experience with spreadsheets. I have used excel to keep track of my grades and making calendars for day planners. Spreadsheets can be confusing at first. After you use the program for awhile, it is a lot easier. I believe that I will use excel in my class.

We can use spreadsheets to set up rubrics, graphs, charts, analyzing data, grade books, and a lot more activities. Spreadsheets allow you to see all the numbers you are working with at one time. This is important if you are trying to keep track of a lot of different numbers. You can save an excel sheet. You really can’t save an equation on a calculator. The three primary functions of a spreadsheet are storing, calculating, and presenting information. I think that these are quite accurate. You can store whatever numbers you want, do all sorts of calculations with the numbers, and then design a graph to present the numbers. Spreadsheets are also good at showing the relationships between data. Another important function of spreadsheets is that the program keeps information organized. All the information is in neat rows and columns. You can make multiple spreadsheets in one document. Again, all the information is right where it needs to be.