In the next three activities, you will:

• Design and produce learning activities that help learners visualise relationships in graphs
• Use a spreadsheet (MS Excel) to help build up data tables easily to plot graphs
• Use a word processor (MS Equation editor) to write formulae

Spreadsheets were originally designed for commercial and accounting purposes, but have many properties that can make them useful in science.

Spreadsheets such as MS Excel can be used to:

• do calculations on data
• plot graphs
• sort and arrange data

In the following activities you will focus only on a few aspects of the use of spreadsheets in science education.

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