Abstract—The integration of ICTs in the teaching and learning curricula is the apparent goal for initiatives to improve education in schools. Most Schools however, look for specialised educational software and hardware to achieve this integration. This paper proposes the use of a widely readily available tool to achieve the same integration that other specialized tools would achieve. Over the years the application area for spreadsheets has multiplied. It is software that is becoming more pronounced in the teaching and learning of pupils and students. A Spreadsheet can be used as a powerful learning tool for both primary and secondary school pupils. Spreadsheets offer concrete ways to explore abstract concepts in mathematics and other subjects. Spreadsheets contain a variety of formulas, which can be used in teaching mathematics. These formulas can be generalized, so that students can see how the outcome is changed when one of the variables is altered. Apart from using ready-made formulas pupils can make up their own formulas to manipulate numbers. This paper proposes the use of Ms Excel in the teaching and learning of statistics in secondary schools. This paper demonstrates the ability for Ms Excel to teach almost all the topics in secondary school statistics. Index Terms—Information and communication technology (ICT), Microsoft Excel (MS Excel), spreadsheets, statistics. I. INTRODUCTION Recent technological developments, offer teachers an additional method for teaching statistics‟ content and practice. ICT integrated teaching and learning offers a number of advantages and some of these advantages include emphasis on active learning, enrichment of collaborative learning, encouragement of greater student‟s independence and task-based teaching [1]. ICT integration can be defined as the usage of ICT functioning as an integral or mediated tool to accomplish specific teaching or learning activities to meet certain instructional objectives [2]. ICTs can be defined as a “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.” These technologies include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television), and telephony [3]. Studies reveal a number of factors which influence teachers' decisions to use ICT in the classroom. One of the factors is access to quality of software [4]. Schools in developed countries with greater powers of acquisition have easier access to specialised educational quality technologies and can easily integrate ICTs in the teaching and learning curricula. Schools in developing countries on the other hand however do not enjoy these powers and as such it is imperative that they redouble their efforts to prepare themselves to successfully meet the challenge and maximize the opportunities that the use of ICT in education offers [5]. One way in which they could do this is by using readily available tools like spreadsheets. Users can manipulate numbers by using stored formulas and calculate different outcomes and this capability makes a spreadsheet an ideal tool for the teaching and learning of mathematics. Popular electronic spreadsheet packages include Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, and Ms Excel. The first electronic spreadsheet though was VisiCalc which appeared in 1979. It was created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the Apple II platform. The creators later sold the rights in VisiCalc to Lotus Development Corporation, which developed Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC in 1982. Then came Microsoft Excel, which was developed first for the Apple Macintosh, but which was also the first real Microsoft Windows application [6]-[8]. The use of spreadsheets allows pupils or students to explore solution alternative processes that go beyond symbolic manipulations and provide students with a deeper understanding of concepts embedded in a problem. One unique use of spreadsheets is the ability to interactively model and simulate mathematical situations. Mathematics teachers can use spreadsheets to create experimental environments for discovering mathematical relationships. These experiments can assist pupils or students in their conceptualization of relationships among numerical, graphical and algebraic representations [9]. This paper particularly investigates Ms Excel as a tool for the teaching and learning of mathematics. In this paper we want to illustrate through examples how a spreadsheet such as Ms Excel can be used to construct powerful demonstrations of statistical ideas for teaching purposes. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section II reviews literature on similar work, Section III gives the demonstration of how excel can be used to teach statistics and Section IV concludes the paper. II. LITERATURE REVIEW Critics of using technology in teaching statistics argue that students have to spend time learning the package and are therefore not concentrating on learning statistics [10]. Some researchers although argue that using a spreadsheet such as Excel can overcome some of these difficulties. In particular, students are more aware of what is happening because they can see the formulae being used and the process of analysis is much more interactive [11]. In addition, most students are ICT Integrated Learning: Using Spreadsheets as Tools for e-Learning, A Case of Statistics in Microsoft Excel Nchimunya Chaamwe and Langstone Shumba International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2016 435 DOI: 10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.728 Manuscript received October 17, 2014; revised December 19, 2014. The authors are with Copperbelt University, Zambia (e-mail: nchimunya2009@gmail.com, lshumba2001@yahoo.com).