Spreadsheets are absolute. You enter some variables, and a spreadsheet outputs an absolute number, according to whatever logic has been programmed into it. But here’s the problem: While spreadsheets ...

The wonderful algebra suggestions of the Sept 26, 2012 article “N Ways to Apply Algebra With The New York Times” open the door to not only authentic problem solving in our algebra courses, but to a ...

There are many situations such as 'I want to use spreadsheet software, but I don't need multifunctional software like Excel' when deciding a shopping budget or finding the average score of a game. ' ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 34, No. 3 (1985), pp. 317-321 (5 pages) The teaching of statistical calculation methods can be enhanced by using a ...