Excel Spreadsheet snack bar fun

Teaching students to use spreadsheets has a bad reputation; it's one of the ICT topics that seems dry, unyielding perhaps. I've always thought that this is unfair. Spreadsheets are tools for answering questions. Use them to answer uninteresting questions, and you will end up with uninteresting answers, and uninspiring learning experiences. But if your questions are interesting, if they have a real purpose and context within learning, then spreadsheets allow learners to explore data, to answer those interesting questions, and to generate (and answer) their own questions in true Dan Meyer style.

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