P.S. Great web site Karen!
At 08:09 PM 9/18/97 -0400, CoolMath2@AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 97-09-18 10:08:29 EDT, you write:
>
><< 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. >>
>
>Sallie-
>
>I do this every semester with my Math for Elementary School teachers
>classes!! They reeeally like it!!
>
>What I do is to give them a list of sites to visit, give them some brief
>direction of where to go in the site and then ask them to tell me about what
>they saw or their favorite thing.
>
>If you send them to a place like the Math Forum, they can search around in
>the Algebra area themselves!! Ask them to write down the addresses of
>anything cool that they found. But, BEWARE!! The last time I did this, half
>of my class somehow found The Wine and Cheese Lovers Site listing through the
>Math Forum!!! 8-) This told me a lot about that class.
>
>What I do now - since I have a website - is to have them go to MY site where
>I have a page set up with all the links and they can navigate from there!
>
>Karen
>Orange Coast College
>http://members.aol.com/coolmath2/coolmath.htm
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