ASJM students are working hard exploring Google Sheets. This is a unique program used in business, as well as, in high school and college math and science courses. In Kindergarten and 2nd grade, we are working on signing into Google with our emails and opening and saving documents ourselves, as well as exploring Google Sheets and how to format it. They are also exploring the program by making a chart about our classmates’ favorite color, animal, subject, and place to travel. This allows students to explore the formatting, how the drop-down tab works, and how to expand tabs. This project also allows us to learn fun facts about our classmates and teacher. In addition, they are exploring how to take the information and create bar and pie graphs on sheets of paper.
Our 3rd -5th graders are working on teamwork, entrepreneurship, and managing budgets. Grades 3-5 are working with partners to develop a business idea, products to sell, the cost to make the product, the price to sell the product, and the amount of profit for each product. This helps them expand their creativity, problem-solving, and all the parts needed to buy and sell a product. With the information the students gather, they place them into a Google Sheet to learn how to use the mathematical side of Google Sheets to help total the cost to make the product and to find the overall profit. Using drop-down tabs, they learn how to format items to make a chart that they can present their product and what they need to be successful.