Maths through Spreadsheets

Problems, puzzles and investigations covering a very wide range of mathematics

Maths through Spreadsheets consists of three collections of problems, puzzles and activities to help you use spreadsheets as a medium for investigating mathematics. There will be something useful in these books for any mathematics teacher who is considering using a spreadsheet in their lessons.

Student's Book 1 is written especially for those with little or no experience of spreadsheets. Book 2 is appropriate for those who are fairly confident about the basics of spreadsheets. The books are extremely "user-friendly".

Book 1
(for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4) has an accompanying disk of files (for both Excel and Sparks) in the Teacher's Pack. The students start by simply entering numbers into cells to solve arithmetic problems. Then they progress through number puzzles, mystery functions, sequences and many other activities to simple modelling. Even though there are over 60 activities in Book 1, students never need to do more than enter numbers into cells.

Book 2
(for Key Stages 3 and 4) contains 100 problems, investigations and puzzles for students individually and in small groups in Number, Algebra, Modelling and Handling data. These are all designed to be particularly suitable for tackling with a spreadsheet. The accompanying disk contains files with partial solutions and hints to help students in difficulty.

The Guide to each book gives hints and (where appropriate) solutions to the exercises in all 3 books. The Teacher's Pack contains 1 copy of the relevant Student's Book, plus the Guide to the Book and a disk of spreadsheet files, together with an Overview of using Spreadsheets in the Mathematics classroom.

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