Search #1
Information type: Activity "Logic Problems"
Person submitting: Sandra Hightower
Location: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~karplus/puzzles.html
Browser: Netscape Navigator
Path: Alta Vista, key phrase "Math logic problems", linked to "Eli’s Math and Logic Puzzles and Interesting Finds"
Summary: Site contains logic puzzles, idiot test, math problems, etc.
No solutions were given.
Bibliographic citation
: Karplus, Eli. Eli’s Math and Logic Puzzles and Interesting Finds.[Online] Availablehttp://ucsub.colorado.edu/~karplus/puzzles.html
May 12, 1998.
Search #2
Information type: Activity "The Sierpinski Triangle"
Person submitting: Sandra Hightower
Location: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractals
Browser: Netscape Navigator
Path: Infoseek, key phrase "Math lessons", linked to "Math Lessons by Cynthia Lanius", linked to "A Fractal Geometry Unit", linked to "Sierpinski Triangle.
Summary: Site contains lessons on algebra, fractal geometry, cartography, fractions, calculus, polyominoes, and slope.
Bibliographic citation
: Lanius, Cynthia. The Sierpinski Triangle.[Online]Available
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractals
April 18, 1998.
Search #3
Information type: Activity "What is a Tessellation?"
Person submitting: Sandra Hightower
Location: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html
Browser: Netscape Navigator
Path: Infoseek, key phrase "Tessellations", linked to "About Tessellations Tutorials", linked to "What is a Tessellation?"
Summary: Site includes introduction, designing using Claris Works, Geometer’s Sketchpad, and Hyperstudio.
Bibliographic citation
: Alejandre, Suzanne. What is a Tessellation?[Online] Available
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html
July 19, 1998
Search #4
Information type: Activity "Brain Teasers Contest"
Person submitting: Sandra Hightower
Location: http://www.mcdougalllittell.com/bt/09/0902.html
Browser: Netscape Navigator
Path: Infoseek, key phrase "Brain Teasers", linked to "Brain Teasers Contest, Grades 3-8", linked to "McDougal Littell’s Summer Brain Teasers Contest".
Summary: Site contains a weekly question in grades 9-10, and grades 11-12.
The solution from the week before is included.
Bibliographic citation
: Houghton and Mifflin, Texas Instruments. Summer Brain Teasers Contest.[Online] Availablehttp://www.mcdougalllittell.com/bt/09/0902.html
March 2, 1998.
Search #5
Information type: Activity "Wallpaper"
Person submitting: Sandra Hightower
Location: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5984/Wallpaper.html
Browser: UseNet
Path: key word "origami", linked to "Re:Wanted! – Wallpaper craft", linked to "VSM creations – Making Cards and Envelopes from Wallpaper"
Summary: The search took me to a newsgroup: rec.crafts.misc where questions were posed and viewers sent in responses.
Bibliographic citation
: Maldonado, Miquel. VSM creations – Making Cards and Envelopes from Wallpaper. [Online] Availablehttp://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5984/Wallpaper.html
July 21, 1998