The Pittsburgh New Church School is a small elementary and middle school in Pittsburgh, PA. Occationally I help them out by writing some code or Excel spreadsheets that they find useful in the classroom. I plan to share that code here.
The math program PNCS uses has a small section in which the students are to learn about sampling and displays of information through taking a sample of their classmates. Unfortunately, this exercise was intended for use in schools with a larger student body so that samples of reasonable size may be taken. To adjust this for the smaller school size, we wanted to create some fictitious people that are similar to the students in the school. I created
this Excel Spreadsheet to accomplish this.