SPREADSHEET!

I think spreadsheet is a multi purpose tool that is in place to help people organize information to be displayed to an audience. It is very useful because what ever you need, time line, fact sheet, calculations need to be done, or if you like using it to budget your check, it is very useful. I would like to use it in my classroom, have the students keep track of the physical activities or use it to show how much calories they are burning by doing an activity on the program.
We as teachers could use spreadsheet for a number of different items such as keeping up with grades, generating up a new work sheet for the student. The advantage of spreadsheet over a calculator would be that you can do multiple functions at once and retain your answer and display it for the class to see, rather than doing on function and erasing it and doing another function on a small screen compared to the computer screen or projector. I think the textbook was correct on the functions.