In the classroom setting, worksheets usually refer to a loose sheet of paper with questions or exercises for students to complete and record answers.
[3] With evolving curricula, parents may not have the necessary education to guide their students through homework or provide additional support at home.
[4] In accounting, a worksheet often refers to a loose leaf piece of stationery from a columnar pad, as opposed to one that has been bound into a physical ledger book.
From this, the term was extended to designate a single, two-dimensional array of data within a computerized spreadsheet program.
Common types of worksheets used in business include financial statements such as profit and loss reports.
Analysts, investors, and accountants track a company's financial statements, balance sheets, and other data on worksheets.
In spreadsheet programs like the open source LibreOffice Calc or Microsoft's Excel, a single document is known as a 'workbook' and may have by default three arrays or 'worksheets'.