It's called a cell?

The first grade students in Mrs. Fuch's class learned about Excel. They were very excited to learn that the "boxes" were called cells.  In the course of one lesson, they learned how to enter information into Excel, shade boxes, and add patterns to other boxes.

Students are learning about different ways to add, including facts that are doubles (6+6) and facts that are doubles plus 2 (6+8).  According to Mrs. Fuchs,

The original lesson said to write a number line on the board and put check above the numbers that were the sums for doubles facts, "x's" for the sum of double plus 2 facts.  I decided to do the number line in Excel, shade the boxes for the sum of doubles and add a pattern to the sums of the plus 2 facts.  We will discuss the number patterns we see to make a connection for computational fluency using these two comparisons.  

Mrs. Fuch's students are learning how to harness technology to further their understanding in math.  Awesome!