SSAC General Collection Modules

Following are short descriptions of the available modules. To access any of them, select from the list and you will connect to cover material including learning goals, context of use, and other information. Within the cover material (under "Teaching Materials") there is a link by which you can download the student version of the module.

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Grade Calculation part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. This activity introduces the student to the concept of weighted averages by asking them to calculate course grades and grade point averages.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Average; weighted average, Creating and manipulating tabular data:Lookup function
Subject: Education, Mathematics, statistics and computers:Mathematics
Excel Skills: Other Manipulations and Functions:Lookup Functions, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Arithmetic Functions:SUM, Basic Arithmetic:Nested Formulas, Statistical Functions:One array:AVERAGE, LARGE, SMALL, etc

A Look at High School Dropout Rates: Average Rates of Change and Trend Lines part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to calculate an average rate of change and compare it to the slope of the trend line on a scatter plot of a real-world data set

Quantitative Concepts: Algebra; Modeling; Functions:Functions: general:Concept of function, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Rates:Rates of Change, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Average; weighted average, Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Units and Dimensions, Algebra; Modeling; Functions:Straight lines and linear functions:Slope, intercept; linear trends, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Line- and curve-fitting, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :XY scatter plots
Subject: Education, Mathematics, statistics and computers
Excel Skills: Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:Trendlines, Basic Arithmetic:Arithmetic Functions:SUMPRODUCT, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:One Plot

What's the Difference? -- Calculating the difference in wages for a bookkeeper (AA degree) vs. a cashier (no college degree) part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a basic spreadsheet to calculate the accumulating difference in wages between two jobs in the context of deciding to get an AA degree.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Comparisons; percent difference, change, increase, Number operations:Number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Creating and manipulating tabular data, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Creating equations; text-to-math translation, Visual display of data :Bar graphs; column graphs; stacked bar graphs, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Rates
Subject: Education
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Arithmetic Functions:SUM, Graphs and Charts:Bar Graph