Re: [MATHEDCC] Web Assignment
Brian E. Smith (SMITHB@management.mcgill.ca)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:27:24 -0400
>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:31:28
>To: spaschal@DEKALB.DC.PEACHNET.EDU
>From: "Brian E. Smith" <SMITHB@management.mcgill.ca>
>Subject: Re: [MATHEDCC] Web Assignment
>
>I did it in a calculus class - the results were remarkable. I learned a
great deal from the projects, largely in the hitory of mathematics or the
history of mathematicians (an important distinction). I hope the students
learned as much as I did! By and large I found the students worked quite
independently and really got into it. I started them off by giving them a
handout with some useful mathematical web sites. I did not have my own home
page at the time - now I would simply send them to my homepage to find the
relevant links.
>
>Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
>
>Brian
>
>At 10:04 AM 9/18/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dear List:
>>
>>Here is something a little new to talk about.
>>
>>I'd like to give a project to my College Algebra classes using the Web.
>>I'm thinking of giving them a list of topics from which to choose. Then
>>have them search out the topic and write a paper of some sort citing the
>>references with the URLs used.
>>
>>Has anyone done something like this? Could you share some insight? We
>>are not in a computer classroom, so they would have to do this work in a
>>lab. We charge our students a $25/quarter technology fee, so I'd love
>>for them to get something out of it in mathematics.
>>
>>Any ideas would be great. Thanks.
>>
>>Sallie
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