A worksheet, in the word’s original meaning, is a scrap of stationery on which one performs activity. They come in several kind forms, most ussually linked with children’s school activity assignments, tax forms, or accounting or another business environments. Software is raisingly taking over the paper-based worksheet.
It could be a printed page that a child finishes with a writing instrument. No other stuffs are required. It’s “a single paper on which work schedules, working time, specific instructions, etc. are recorded. A scrap of paper on which issues, ideas, or the like, are write down in temporary form.” In education, a worksheet may have questions for students and where to record answers.
In department of accounting, a worksheet is, or was, a scrap of instructed paper with rows and columns on which an accountant could note information or do calculations. These are oftentimes named columnar pads, or typically green-tinted.
In IT, spreadsheet application presents, on a PC monitor, a UI that alike one or more paper accounting worksheets. MS Excel, a favorite spreadsheet software, bases on a single spreadsheet (more technically, a 2 dimensional matrix or array) as a worksheet, and it bases on a group of worksheets as a workbook.
