Direct Data Decisions

This Excel spreadsheet demonstrates how to apply the Excel PMT (payment) function to calculate a monthly car payment, a mortgage payment, and a monthly investment in order to reach a future investment goal. This spreadsheet is to be used in conjunction with the Excel PMT reference guide.

Enhance your students' technology application and math skills by integration respective TEKS. Data skills are in very high demand. With this tool, your students can advance their math and technology applications skills by using Excel to plot coordinate points and find number patterns from the grid. As coordinates are entered into the X and Y columns, the coordinate grid dynamically plots the ordered pair. Uses Grade 5 Math TEKS 5.8A, 5.8B and Grade 5 Technology Applications TEKS (new for 2024) 5

Part of a series, this Excel file introduces 5th Grade math students to the power of Excel to solve math problems, specifically focusing on TEKS 5.3K Add and subtraction positive rational numbers fluently. This is unique in that students are challenged by integration Technology Application TEKS 5.4B, collect, analyze...represent data to solve problems using...spreadsheets, databases. Come back soon to see other solutions for math using Excel!