Making my teaching of Excel better

General

This year (Fall 2003) students seemed to handle the different exercises better than last year.
There were complaints from overseas students about using baseball stats as an example spreadsheet since few people understood what the categories meant.

Improvements

1. Have the students download a text table or simple spreadsheet from a web site and format it
2. Learn how to format decimal places and round numbers
3. Use formulae that reference the previous line. Changing interest loans etc
4. Do more with scaling axes to fit
5. Do more with formatting the sheet and saving and using charts in web page.

Posted by markp at December 09, 2003 02:33 PM