January 6 classwork

Welcome back from holidays. I hope it was restful, Santa was good to you AND you received you a lot of "otoshidama". I wish we had that when I was growing up!

Anyway, lets get down to business. For your first reading assignment in 2006 (Wow, time flies when you are having fun) I would like you to read pages 96-97 and answer the following questions:

1. What is a spreadsheet?
   
2. Give two reasons why spreadsheets are good to use.
   
3. Give five different functions a spreadsheet can perform.
   
4. Write a short paragraph describing how a spreadsheet works.
   
5. What is a formula?
   
6. What is the advantage of using formulas in a spreadsheet?

You should have some time in class to do this work. Good luck and lets have a great new year!