Decimal Multiplication is one of a series of Labs to help you understand and learn to use decimals. I think you will find it fun because it uses random numbers and it will help you visualize decimal operations. Take a look at Decimal Addition and Decimal Subtraction and Decimal Division. Remember like all of our spreadsheets you can look at and change the rules to try different things.
Category: Numeracy
Decimal Division
Decimal Division is one of a series of Labs to help you understand and learn to use decimals. I think you will find it fun because it uses random numbers and it will help you visualize decimal operations. Take a look at Decimal Addition and Decimal Subtraction and Decimal Multiplication. Remember like all of our spreadsheets you can look at and change the rules to try different things.
Battleship
Spreadsheets can be a great place for you to build your own games. Ryan has built one of his early favorites, Battleship, where you learn graphing as you try to sink your opponent’s battleships. Making your own games can be great fun. Try it.
Adding Machine
Multiplication is often thought of as repeated addition. By building a times table by using a repeated addition rule you will have a fun practice of the multiplication facts, and you will learn to build rules in spreadsheets. Rules let you program spreadsheets to do remarkable things like make the multiplication table in just a couple of easy steps.
Making Fractions
Spreadsheet math generally focuses on ratio and proportion to develop the concept of fraction. But fractions is such a big problem in today’s curriculum that it seemed only right to use the power of spreadsheets to help students and teachers to gain some fraction-sense. This is a very simple spreadsheet that uses histograms to compare fractions. We expect students to play with this and to put in different fractions and guess which ones will be bigger or smaller and then check their guesses. This Lab only works on Excel Spreadsheets.