Comments on: Excel geeking https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=excel-geeking FOR YOUR MATHS TEACHING AND LEARNING NEEDS Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.5 By: MathedUp https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2610 Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:09:08 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2610 In reply to Colleen Young.

Thanks Colleen! I had not come across either of these sites. Both are absolutely fantastic!
We seem to have very similar approaches to teaching mathematics.. Hope we get to meet soon 🙂

]]> By: Colleen Young https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2609 Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:41:38 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2609 I have that mug! Another spreadsheet fan here – both for teaching, using the kind of resources you mention here and also as part of my whole school job when i want to make data clear for staff.

For teaching resources – see also Mike Hadden’s MathsFiles and David Watkins’ Dynamic Maths:

https://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/mathematics-excel-files/

https://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/revision-activities/dynamic-maths/

]]> By: DAZ https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2523 Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:34:00 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2523 In reply to Excel Roundup 20150608 « Contextures Blog.

Google Sheets can do all the things you mention:

conditional formatting: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/78413?hl=en
protect/lock cells: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/144687?hl=en
hide sheets: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1218656?hl=en
add scripts/macros: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2942256?hl=en

]]> By: Excel Roundup 20150608 « Contextures Blog https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2511 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:02:38 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2511 […] Mohammed Ladak could only use one piece of software in his classroom, he would choose Excel. See a few examples of how he uses it in […]

]]> By: MathedUp https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2476 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:56:46 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2476 In reply to Daz.

Hi Daz. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment. Pleased to hear that you will be trying out some of the ideas here. Please do come back and let me know how you get on..

Excellent point on me referring mostly to Excel. I guess I was reflecting on my own experiences which are mainly using Excel spreadsheets (I had been teaching for 5 years when google docs first came on the scene!). Google sheets definitely has its advantages, but is still far away in terms of power (slowly catching up though!). The main advantage of Excel is the ability to assign macros to buttons. This allows you to add hide/show features amongst other things. Also, the ability to hide/protect sheets, lock cells and use conditional formatting (I’m not sure if you can do all of this in Google Sheets..?) makes it much easier to create resources for students to use.

Having said this, I will take some time to look at Google sheets and see if there are any features that would be particularly advantageous over Excel. One thing that might be a possibility is to automate collection of student scores on self marking worksheets.. I will investigate! Thanks again 🙂

]]> By: Daz https://www.mathedup.co.uk/excel-geeking/#comment-2475 Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:34:50 +0000 https://mathedup.co.uk/?p=2902#comment-2475 Great Post! Some brilliant ideas that I shall definitely be using, I don’t use spreadsheets enough.

My only quibble is that you keep referring to Excel when actually they are all just ‘Spreadsheets’. Personally, I think Google Sheets would be better to use due to them being accessible in the browser.

Thanks again.

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