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Learning & Leading with Technology

May 1997

This month’s issue contains a feature on using spreadsheets with elementary students as well as curriculum articles about studying apportionment in social studies classes, using word processors with foreign language students, and holding a summer computer science camp.

 

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The Spreadsheet—Absolutely Elementary!
   by Elizabeth Dudley Holmes
Elementary teachers and teacher trainers can use these activities to teach themselves and their students (ages 5–12) about spreadsheets and how they can illustrate complex math concepts. The spreadsheet templates are then placed in electronic “posters” to create wonderful interactive activities to help students visualize and communicate mathematical concepts.
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