Dear Carmody 7th Grade Elective Computer Class Students and Parents.

April 20, 2006

1. Carmody Parent Appreciation Week in Dr.Data's classes from Monday, April 24 to Thursday, April 27, 2006. You are welcomed to attend any or all of Dr. Data's 7th grade computer classes on those days. Sit with your child and have them teach you on to do spreadsheets!! Yes, the students will teach the parents. Especially if any of the parents have difficulty in doing any of the following spreadsheet assignments.

Any student during Carmody Parent Week in Dr. Data's classes who teaches their parent how to do a spreadsheet in their class, will be awarded a floating "A", which is equal to 20 bonus points. Parents you must see your child "in action." Please attend your child's class during one of these days next week.
• Demonstration Sheet - Assignment #1. Printout the Introduction Spreadsheet Worksheet with number answers only. Then print out the Introduction Spreadsheet with formulas for all answers. Do not submit your Introduction Spreadsheet assignment until it has formuals instead of answers. Dr. Data will show you how to toggle between an answer version and a formula version. Once this is learned, success will be yours in the spreadsheet unit!

  Note: if you would like to know what spreadsheet concepts you will be learning in this unit of instruction, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/Quiz/Spreadsheet/Final_Spreadsheet_Test.pdf to take the 500, 400, 300, 200 or 100 point test. You literally can earn the grade of your choice!

  If you need an on-line tutorial on how to do spreadsheets in Clarisworks/Appleworks and/or Microsoft Excel, click here.

  • Excel
• http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
• http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/excel/index.html

   

• ClarisWorks/AppleWorks
• http://www.life.uiuc.edu/hughes/prairieflowers/tutorials/spreadsheet.html
• http://www.apple.com/appleworks/tips/_nak.ssbasic/
• http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/tech/trt/trthome.html

• Demonstration Sheet - Assignment #1. Printout the Introduction Spreadsheet Worksheet with answers only. Then print out the Introduction Spreadsheet with formulas for all answers. Do not submit your Introduction Spreadsheet assignment until it has formuals instead of answers. Dr. Data will show you how to toggle between an answer version and a formula version. Once this is learned, success will be yours in the spreadsheet unit!
  
  
  Note: if you would like to know what spreadsheet concepts you will be learning in this unit of instruction, go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/Quiz/Spreadsheet/Final_Spreadsheet_Test.pdf to take the 500, 400, 300, 200 or 100 point test. You literally can earn the grade of your choice!
  If you need an on-line tutorial on how to do spreadsheets in Clarisworks/Appleworks and/or Microsoft Excel, click here.

• First Spreadsheet - Assignment #2. Printout First_Spreadsheet_Original with answers only. Then print out the First_Spreadsheet_Formula with formulas instead of answers. Do not submit your assignment until it has formulas for every bold answer.
  
  
• Clarisworks Spreadsheet: Parts 1 through 6 - Assignment #3
  
  
  • Class Party: Printout Class_Party Original and Class_Party_Formula
  • Clothing Purchase" Printout Class_Party Original and Class_Party_Formula
  • Baseball batting averages: Class_Party Original and Class_Party_Formula
  • Math roots/squaring: Math Table Original and Math Table Formula
  • Bowling: Math Table Original and Math Table Formula
  • Magic numbers: Math Table Original and Math Table Formula

• Family Budget Spreadsheet - Assignment #4. Printout Family Budget Original and Family Budget Formula
  
  
• Food Storage Spreadsheet - Assignment #5: Printout Food Storage Original and Food Storage Formula.

• Final Spreadsheet Project - Assignment #6: go to: http://www.kuzmich.com/carmody/Final_Spreadsheet.html

• Final Assessment for for Spreadsheet instruction. Click at http://www.kuzmich.com/Quiz/Spreadsheet/Final_Spreadsheet_Test.pdf to take the 500, 400, 300, 200 or 100 point test. You literally can earn the grade of your choice!
  

• Parental Help is needed because spreadsheets are the most difficult unit of instruction in the entire semester. Fortunately, all assignments can be finished at home. Especially during Carmody Parent Appreciation Week in Dr. Data's class from April 24 to 27, 2006. Parents are also allowed to guest teach spreadsheet concepts to their child's class. Just let Dr. Data know when you will attend and what concepts you would like to demonstrate on an overhead projection system to the entire class. He will even have you use microphone to speak to the class.

Hope this information is helpful.

Till next time,

Dr. Data