Use Microsoft Software For Your Homeschool

Microsoft Excel could be put to good use in your homeschool, for everything from tracking grades to teaching math formulas. For teaching math formulas, Excel makes it easy to visualize variables and functions and the results that are produced. You can plug your variables into column “A” and then your formulas into column “B” and see the results in column “C”. When changing column “A”, you can immediately see the effect this has on the calculations of the formula. You can also double click on the bottom right corner of the cell to have Excel automatically apply a pattern on the cells below it. So, you can quickly fill a column with the numbers 1 through 10, or only odds, or various other patterns. This can be helpful for getting your child to see a pattern emerge in a formula. Or you can use the results and create a graph, which changes as you change the variables column. This can help children quickly see how a graph is related to functions. Microsoft Excel could be an important piece of software for your homeschool.