Answer Keys Explained
Also provided with The Spreadsheet Lab Manual are the answer keys for each lab handout. The answer keys can serve the following valuable purposes:
The answer keys are an important element of making the program self sufficient. The explanations allow teachers who are first exploring the laboratory activities to understand how to perform the various functions and manipulations on the spreadsheet which can be frustrating to try to learn without guidance. Also teachers can carry the answer keys with them when proctoring the students in the computer lab and they will reinforce their own understanding while helping the students, over time enhancing their own skills on spreadsheets.
Also provided with The Spreadsheet Lab Manual are the answer keys for each lab handout. The answer keys can serve the following valuable purposes:
- Checking student responses to questions
- Providing detailed descriptions of specific spreadsheet manipulations necessary to solve a problem
- Helping the teacher understand the development and analysis questions without training
- With answers blacked out can assist a student completing an activity outside of class (as a makeup)
The answer keys are an important element of making the program self sufficient. The explanations allow teachers who are first exploring the laboratory activities to understand how to perform the various functions and manipulations on the spreadsheet which can be frustrating to try to learn without guidance. Also teachers can carry the answer keys with them when proctoring the students in the computer lab and they will reinforce their own understanding while helping the students, over time enhancing their own skills on spreadsheets.