The document discusses teaching spreadsheet skills like Excel to students. It argues that spreadsheet skills are becoming as important as typing and are used in many fields like business, science, art and more. It presents a method for teaching Excel that focuses on practical mechanics like shortcuts and formulas to make tasks more efficient. The goal is to give students skills they can use immediately and make data analysis less frustrating. Contact information is provided at the end for those interested in the spreadsheet training.

1. The materials presented herewith are proprietary. Copyright © 2012 Quant Media Advisors, Inc.

2. Imagine
career
Leapfrogging years ahead
in learning a skill that they
don’t teach you until you
get your first job.
grad school
high college
school
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3. Remember
Learning to type?
How useful has it been to
your every day life?
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4. There’s another skill that is becoming
just as important as typing.
It’s working with DATA.
You know: lists, charts,
databases.
Except normal typing
isn’t enough. You need
to learn how to use a
spreadsheet program
like Microsoft Excel.
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5. Spreadsheets are the true
global language of the future.
NOT
Chinese English Hindi
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6. CEO
Everyone uses
spreadsheets.
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7. Every occupation uses spreadsheets.
Math
Business Sciences Psychology Art…
Engineering Medicine History
Finance
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8. Art??
Absolutely.
Ask any grad Ask Sotheby’s.
student
Art pieces and Art prices are
research have all increasingly set
been digitalized by sophisticated
and cataloged in analyses of
university online historical data.
databases.
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9. The most common program used to analyze DATA is Microsoft
Excel.
But we’re not teaching anyone how to use it…
…leading to
frustration and
WASTED time.
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10. We focus first on sheer mechanics because that opens the
door to quick, repetitive, addictive learning.
Finance Accounting Math
Keyboard Hand-Eye
Speed
Shortcuts Coordination
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11. Practical
We stay away
from theory
and teach
keyboard
shortcuts and
simple Relevant
formulas that We work with
drastically cut college admissions
the time data to keep the
needed to lessons relevant
complete a and useful to
task. students.
Immediate
Students will
use these skills
immediately in
high school and
college.
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12. Skills Presentation.
Add immediate
value to a
spreadsheet via
formatting.
Story.
Numbers must tell a
story, just like Data.
Data is expanding. Learn how
words. Learn how
to quickly manipulate large
to use numbers to
data sets.
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13. Fire up all cylinders
Left-
brained.
Right-brained.
Develop muscles
in analytics,
logic and Grow a large
interpretation. capacity for
invention,
creativity, free-
form association
and big-picture
thinking.
Brawny brains.
Fire up both hemispheres
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14. Contact Us
allen.lee@sololocales.org
ingrid.trejo@sololocales.org
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