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Decimals projects for Microsoft Excel
Stock Market PBL
The problem based learning activity presents middle school students with the opportunity to buy and sell stocks. The students are responsible for researching and buying stocks, creating and maintaining an Excel spreadsheet, and tracking the profits and losses for a given time period.
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6th - 8th
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Who's Taking Out the Trash? An Experimental Probability Activity
When deciding the probability of an event through experimentation, how many trials are enough? 10? 1,000? 1,000,000??? This activity is a cooperative grouping activity that focuses on just that. The pre-lesson set up reels the students in. The activity engages them. The manipulative materials involve them. An Excel extension is also available to combine the results of multiple groups. Through this activity, students really see how more trials leads to a better understanding of the true pr
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6th - 8th
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Party on a Budget
Students plan a party from start to finish. They are in charge of creating a supply list, estimating cost, and go online to find actual amounts. This document is based in excel and has preloaded formulas for your students to input their amounts. They can't be over the designated budget though!
This high interest activity is perfect for combining real world skills with mathematical concepts.
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6th - 8th
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Plan a Vacation
Initially, I designed this lesson for adding/multiplying decimal numbers, and it's fine for that; however, I've started using it toward the end of the year as a lesson on basic spreadsheet formulas.As an end-of-the-year project, it allows the students to complete Internet research, which they enjoy, and to create an online slideshow project, which they also enjoy.
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4th - 8th
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