Scaffolding Math Learning with Spreadsheets
Students identify the importance of learning to use technology as productivity, communication, research, problem-solving, and decision-making tools. With Scaffolding students are required to learn basic operations and concepts of technology through spreadsheets. Scaffolding with spreadsheets requires that students are able to enter user-defined and spreadsheet-defined formulas, copy formulas, and graph data. Therefore, instead of students typing in cell names, teachers show them how to select the cells and enter the needed operations. Teachers’ must show examples of how to enter equations and demonstrate how to do them by entering certain formulas. Rather than having students type the cell names, show them how to select the cells and enter the needed operations. The students work in pairs at the computer and complete the spreadsheet and in the process learn about using cell names to enter formulas. Giving the students a chance to work on both order of operations and using spreadsheets in solving mathematical problems.
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