Excel (Spreadsheet)

Cd Store Cd store offers the students a classic example in how book stores and cd stores calculate the total of sales by using excel or another similar spreadsheet. This a good exercise where the students have to calculate different statements by using the excel functions as well building a graph that shows the important objectives.	Commodities Bulk goods such as grains, metals, livestock, oil, cotton, coffee, sugar and cocoa. They can either be sold on the spot market for immediate delivery or on the commodities exchanges for later delivery. Trade on the exchanges is in the form of futures contracts. Commodities are often viewed as a hedge against inflation because their price rises with the consumer price index (CPI). Students learn a little bit about commodities and learn how to represent these goods by using excel.
All Time Box Office This project talks about the cumulative gross of some of the most popular movies in the United States. Students learn how to apply the different functions such as sum, sort ascending, average, median, maximum, minimum, etc.	US Presidential Election 2004 This project helps the student to understand how the Electoral College works. It allows the student to compare information by different concepts such as popular and electoral votes.
Olympic Games Olympic Games offers the students a great opportunity to use some of the statistical functions in excel. Students will calculate the sum of individuals, the average and the median.	Converter This assignment helps the students in making conversions between Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees by using the excel operators.