Excel

The spreadsheet was revolutionary when first released (VisiCalc - 1980), especially in finance where it was able to perform the work of many clerks.

The document that you have created is called a workbook. A workbook can be further divided into Sheets.

Adding Numbers

Each square of the grid that you see is called a Cell.

Lists

Excel makes creating lists of numbers easy if the pattern is obvious.

Formulae

Excel is so powerful because we can use formulae to reference cells and perform arithmetic on their contents.

=A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6+A7+A8+A9

The Sum & Average Function

The approach above works well for short lists but would quickly get tedious for long lists. Excel has lots of built in formula to help you.

Sorting

Now fill five names and ages of your choosing

Graphing

Another powerful feature of Excel is its ability to make charts

We now need to tell Excel to use our first column as the graph's x-values.

Project

Task 1: Multiplication Table

We are going to use the power of Excel to create any times table of our choosing.

The first task is to create a box that we can use to tell Excel which times table to use.

We will now create a space to calculate the multiplication table:

In column D, we want to tell Excel to multiply the number in C2 with the number to its left.

If we just wrote C2 as a reference and dragged down, Excel would change the reference to C3 in the next row etc.

To fix a reference in excel, we put a $ in front of either the number or letter, or both.

We can now type any number we want into C2 and get the multiplication table

Task 2: Magic Squares

Magic Squares are square grids with a special arrangement of numbers in them. These numbers are special because every row, column and diagonal adds up to the same number. So for the example below, 15 is the magic number.

The first thing we will do it to create some squares by setting the row and column widths to be the same.

Can you find another set of magic numbers?

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