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Microsoft Excel is also a great tool used for education. In week 7 I learned how to generate percentages, use sparklines, insert a table, specify cell colors, and I practiced many skills I already knew how to use on Excel. Excel can be a useful teaching tool in aiding math lessons, creating data information, taking polls and creating spreadsheets of results, tracking a child’s progress (grades), conditional formatting, teaching kids about budgets, nutrition, etc. Excel can be used in many different ways and in a variety of lessons. For instance, it can be used to help enforce the idea of healthy nutrition and how to create a spreadsheet to track what you eat during the day. Another idea is using excel in a personal finance/ money unit and teaching the kids how to save money or how to create a budget.