Help Sheets 2006 - 7
Using the Drawing Toolbar  
The drawing toolbar in Microsoft Office is a really useful toolbar and has strong links with Mathematics. Understanding how to use the drawing toolbar effectively enables teachers to create professional resources at the click of a button.
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Dynamic Demos in PowerPoint  

As a mathematical teaching tool, PowerPoint is a mechanism for any teacher to be able to animate their lesson.

 

During this workshop, we aim to:

  • ensure everyone understands the key features of the drawing toolbar – these skills will be transferable to other MS Office applications as well as PowerPoint
  • use the drawing toolbar and customised animations to animate slides
  • create a simple slide to show some properties of angles and parallel lines
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Interactive, Multiple-choice Activities in Excel  

This activity has been designed to:

  • Give further experience of using the Drawing Toolbar, grouping objects
  • Introduce Data Validation to create drop-down menus
  • Create If Statements and Nested If Statements to provide immediate student feedback

All of these skills have a great many uses in many different contexts from making simple worksheets to creating report generators to setting automated grade boundary functions for exam analysis.

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 More helpsheets such as guidance on how to record simple macros will be added in the near future.