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Broad Topics > Physical and Digital Manipulatives > Spreadsheets

What's the Weather Like?

Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:

With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?

Tree Tops

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?

Litov's Mean Value Theorem

Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:

Start with two numbers and generate a sequence where the next number is the mean of the last two numbers...

Excel Technique: Triangular Arrays by Turning Off Zeros

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use Excel to create triangular arrays.

Excel Technique: LCM & HCF (or GCD)

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use the Excel functions LCM and GCD.

Excel Technique: Using Paste Special to Lift a Copy of Values

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use advanced pasting techniques to create interactive spreadsheets.

Excel Investigation: Fraction Combinations

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Choose four numbers and make two fractions. Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate their properties. Can you generalise?

Excel Technique: Logic Tests

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use logic tests to create interactive resources using Excel.

Excel Investigation: Target Decimal

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use an Excel spreadsheet to approximate a decimal using trial and improvement.

Excel Investigation: Happy Numbers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take any whole number between 1 and 999, add the squares of the digits to get a new number. Use a spreadsheet to investigate this sequence.

Excel Investigation: Number Pyramids

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to create some number pyramids. How are the numbers in the base line related to each other? Investigate using the spreadsheet.

Excel Investigation: Pascal Multiples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

This spreadsheet highlights multiples of numbers up to 20 in Pascal's triangle. What patterns can you see?

Excel Investigation: Multiples of Three

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to investigate digit sums of multiples of three. Can you explain your findings?

Excel Technique: Conditional Formatting

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use conditional formatting to create attractive interactive spreadsheets in Excel.

Percentages for Key Stage 4

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.

Take Ten Sticks

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?

Excel Technique: Composite Bar Charts

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use composite bar charts in Excel.

Excel Investigation: Ring on a String

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

This investigation uses Excel to optimise a characteristic of interest.

Minus One Two Three

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Substitute -1, -2 or -3, into an algebraic expression and you'll get three results. Is it possible to tell in advance which of those three will be the largest ?

Excel Investigation: Beads

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to investigate remainders and divisors. Was your result predictable?

Excel Technique: LOOKUP Functions

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use lookup functions to create exciting interactive Excel spreadsheets.

Excel Investigation: Pythagorean Triples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to find sets of three numbers so that the sum of the squares of the first two is equal to the square of the third.

Excel Investigation: Planks

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

I have an unlimited supply of planks, of lengths 7 and 9 units. Putting planks end to end, what total lengths can be achieved? Use Excel to investigate.

Excel Interactive Resource: Make a Copy

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Investigate factors and multiples using this interactive Excel spreadsheet. Use the increment buttons for experimentation and feedback.

Excel Technique: Making a Table for a Function of Two Independent

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to make a simple table using Excel.

Excel Investigation: More Beads

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

A heap of beads was shared out by a professional bead sharer. Use the information given to find out how many beads there were at the start.

Excel Investigation: Difference Tuples

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use an Excel spreadsheet to investigate differences between four numbers. Which set of start numbers give the longest run before becoming 0 0 0 0?

Substitution Cipher

Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:

Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

Excel Technique: Inserting an Increment Button

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Learn how to use increment buttons and scroll bars to create interactive Excel resources.

Excel Investigation: Power Crazy

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

When is 7^n + 3^n a multiple of 10? Use Excel to investigate, and try to explain what you find out.

Excel Investigation: the Difference of Two (same) Powers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

If you take two integers and look at the difference between the square of each value, there is a nice relationship between the original numbers and that difference. Can you find the pattern using. . . .

Getting to Know Excel

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

A number of useful techniques that can extend your use of Excel.

Excel Investigation: Sums of Consecutive Numbers

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Peaches in General

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

It's like 'Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow' but interestingly generalized.

Zeller's Birthday

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

What day of the week were you born on? Do you know? Here's a way to find out.

Odd Differences

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

The diagram illustrates the formula: 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n - 1) = n² Use the diagram to show that any odd number is the difference of two squares.

Unusual Long Division - Square Roots Before Calculators

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

However did we manage before calculators? Is there an efficient way to do a square root if you have to do the work yourself?

Excel Interactive Resource: Fraction Multiplication

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.

Training Schedule

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

The heptathlon is an athletics competition consisting of 7 events. Can you make sense of the scoring system in order to advise a heptathlete on the best way to reach her target?

Euler's Squares

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Euler found four whole numbers such that the sum of any two of the numbers is a perfect square...

Excel Interactive Resource: Interactive Division

Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:

Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.

Dating Made Easier

Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

If a sum invested gains 10% each year how long before it has doubled its value?

Time of Birth

Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:

A woman was born in a year that was a square number, lived a square number of years and died in a year that was also a square number. When was she born?