Sums Made Easy...Sort Of

Even though my knowledge of Excel is good, today I sort of learnt how best to use spreadsheets with children. They could easily be dismissed as boring (numbers, cells and formulae...fun fun fun!) but are in fact a really useful tool.

The activities that we carried out today took away the laborious sums from math problem solving and allowed us (the children) to focus on manipulating the data, using higher thinking skills. Once you get to grips with adding formulas, all you need to do is click-and-drag your way to a fun maths lesson!