Volume 1, Number 2

14 October 1996 Vol. 1, No. 2 ThinkQuest | Block Scheduling/Tracking | Finding Sites THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS http://mathforum.org/ FEATURED INTERNET RESOURCE: THINKQUEST http://tqd.advanced.org/ByTitle.html Wondering what students are doing on the Web? This month the Forum highlights ThinkQuest, a contest designed to encourage teams of students to create educational tools on the Internet. From Thinkquest's hundreds of contest entries, we've picked out the math projects and listed them - with live links - at our OCTOBER HOT SPOT: http://mathforum.org/~steve/steve/current.html -\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN MATH EDUCATION Is your school moving to block scheduling? Do you wonder whether tracking helps or hinders math education? Initiatives aimed at reforming math education have raised concerns in many quarters. In answer to requests for information, we've put together two collections of articles and sites designed to cover several sides of a couple of controversial issues. BLOCK SCHEDULING http://mathforum.org/mathed/block.schedules.html "Block Scheduling Causes More Problems Than It Solves" "The Power of Innovative Scheduling" ... GROUPING & TRACKING - PROS & CONS http://mathforum.org/mathed/math.grouping.html "Reforming Schools in a Climate of Skepticism" "The Other Crisis in American Education" ... -\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- FROM THE EMAILBAG I'm looking for places that have information on teaching division to elementary school students. Do you know of a site on the Web that would help me? Thank you. - Elizabeth .::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::.::. Hi Elizabeth - The Math Forum is designed to help you find such sites! Here are some ways of going about finding what you want: I. You might start with our COMPLEX SEARCHER of Internet math sites: http://mathforum.org/~steve/mathall.search.html Enter the words DIVIDE DIVISION DIVISIBLE in the keyword space, select the button for AT LEAST ONE of these words, check the box for ELEMENTARY LEVEL, and submit your search. You'll get back a couple of dozen sites to explore that have to do with division at the elementary level. .::.::.::.::.::.::.::. * You can find our complex math searcher - from our home page: select SEARCH The Annotated Forum Collection of Internet Math Resources (Steve's Dump) and choose Complex Search of Math Resources; or - from the SEARCH LINK in the menu bar at the bottom of almost any page on our site - look in the top menu bar of the search page that's returned for "Complex Search." To find what's in our Dr. Math archives and elsewhere on our site, try the same search (without specifying elementary) from our main search link in the bottom menu bar on almost every Forum page. http://mathforum.org/grepform.html .::.::.::.::.::.::.::. II. If you'd like to see our list of elementary math sites, take a look at http://mathforum.org/~steve/steve/mathelem.html You can also get there from the link to Steve's Dump in the bottom menu bar on our pages. In the Browse section you'll find Mathematics by LEVEL. We hope you find what you need. Thanks for writing in! -\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problem of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow2/ Internet Resources http://mathforum.org/~steve/ (Steve's Dump) SEND COMMENTS TO the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors TO SUBSCRIBE: Send a message to majordomo@mathforum.org - leave the subject line blank - and write in the body subscribe newsletter _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ | \ / | / \ / \

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