EUSES Spreadsheet Problems for Teachers

Probabilities and Statistics

These problems were created as part of the EUSES research studies about teaching students to use spreadsheets. The full archive of problems can be found at the EUSES Spreadsheet Education Problems page.

They have proven useful and helpful to students so we post them here for free use by teachers. Primarily these problems are of the level of middle to high school students and feature math concepts taught through the use of spreadsheets.

Please feel free to send us your comments: For general comments about the EUSES Consortium or the web page eusesconsortium@eecs.oregonstate.edu and for comments about the problems niessm@onid.orst.edu

M & M

Mathematics Concepts

  • Pobability, mean, median, mode, percents

Spreadsheet Skills

  • Cell mean, median, mode, percents

Files

Maggie's Mystery

Mathematics Concepts

  • Pie chart
  • Probability

Spreadsheet Skills

  • Pie chart
  • Probability

Files

Climate

Mathematics Concepts

  • The concept of "range"
  • Graphical analysis of data

Spreadsheet Skills

  • "MAX" and "MIN" functions
  • Basic formula entry
  • Graphing

Files

El Nino/La Nina

Mathematics Concepts

  • Data analysis

Spreadsheet Skills

  • The "MAX" and "MIN" functions

Files

  • downloadable Excel files from the website for "Western Regional Climate Center"

Old Faithful - That Trusty Old Geyser

Mathematics Concepts

  • Mean, median, mode, min, max, and quartiles
  • Data analysis

Spreadsheet Skills

  • The "AVERAGE", "MEDIAN", "MODE", "MIN", "MAX", and "QUARTILES" functions

Files