Website evaluations

 

1. Name of site: The Math Forum @Drexel

2. Website Address: http:/www.mathforum.org

3. Copyright date: Shows that the website has been around since 1992, but it is clear that it has been updated every year and made better with these updates.

4. Author/organization credentials: This website does not just have one author it has many people that have contributed to the make of this website.  Along with the staff of the website it also has researchers and consultants to better the website along with the ideas of the main staff

5. Web site design and ease of navigation: This website is designed for the student or the teachers.  Is very appealing and has many options for both in what they need and what they what to learn.  Each tab is clearly defined, easy to read and easy to follow.  The navigation is very simple and nowhere is it confusing for the person trying to use it.  If you cannot find what you need on the home page, it has a search engine to find anything on its website.  Also it has ties with facebook and twitter in order for teachers and students to follow at all time, which I think can be very beneficial to both.  What I mean is that the website might come up with a way you are trying to work a problem or give examples of certain problems you are having trouble with.

 

6. Recommendation for use:  This website has many available resources available for students and teachers, which I have said numerous times.  So the recommendation for use is endless.  This website has everything you need in order for teachers and students to come up with problems, solutions, or answer any questions that may come up during the school year.

I would use this website in my classroom in numerous ways, but right I will give two.  One-way I would use this website is by giving it to students so they can use it at home for when they have questions and I am not available.  The second way I would use this to my advantage is have the students go on every week and do the problem of the week. (Depending on difficulty).  Overall this website is very informative and has many helpful resources available at the click of a mouse.

 

 

 

1. Name of site:  Fun brain

2. Website Address: http://www.funbrain.com/numbers.html

3. Copyright date: 2000-2012 Pearson Education

4. Author/organizational credentials: This website has no specific author.  It says the Family Education Network, a part of Pearson, the education, services and Technology Company, publishes it.

5. Web site design and ease of navigation: This website design is very up to date and very favorable towards its age group, which tends to be 1^st-8^th grade.  A lot of pictures and games and very suitable for the young crowd.  Directions are easy to read and understand.  Moves very fast not lacking at all.

6. Recommendation for use: I would definitely use this website for a use of fun and elaborate games for students.  The only problem I feel with this website is it does not have games for the older groups for subject areas such as pre cal, algebra 2, and so on.  The games of this website not only show a fun way of learning math, but they actually do, in my opinion, involve and teach the children while having fun, not many websites do this.

So I would recommend this website to teachers teaching grades 1-8.  High school teachers could sue this website for an annual game of the week in order to incorporate and easy grade into the grade book for students.

 

 

1. Name of site:  Figure this

2. Website Address: http://www.figurethis.org/index.html

3. Copyright Date: 1999-2004

4. Author/organizational credentials: National council of Teachers and in cooperation with the National Action Council for Minorities. 

5. Web site design and ease of navigation:  The website design to me compared to my second web evaluation is very boring and UN appealing to children for specified age of this website.  Dullness and unappealing are not very good characteristics to have in a website because it could turn off users.  The ease of navigation is fairly simple and fast with no lag time.  Somewhat confusing at times, but overall fairly simple.

6. Recommendation for use:  Would I use this website in my classroom?  The answer is yes.  Even though at first glance it seems very dull, it does have a lot of beneficial information and games for children in this age group.  It has tabs for teachers, students, families, etc.   Having a family tab really does impress me and I think every website should have one because when the whole family is involved makes not only for a good home environment, but makes things easier for the children as well. 

Another reason I would use this website is because it also has the website in Spanish for those children or families who do not speak English.  Having this not only makes it easier for them, but also makes it easier for teachers trying to get Spanish-speaking children involved in everything you do in the classroom.

 

 

1. Name of website: The Math League

2. Website Address: http://www.mathleague.com/

3. Copyright Date: I could not find a specific copyright date, all I found is that it was created in 1977.

4. Authors/organizational credentials:  The two creators of this website are named by Steven R. Conrad and Daniel Flegler.  They both received, from president Ronald Reagan, presidential awards for excellence in mathematics teaching.  Together they have co authored 18 books.

5. Web site design/ ease of navigation:  The design of this website is somewhat boring, but that is ok for the amount of information this website provides.  All tabs and heading are easy to understand and easy to follow.  The ease of navigation is fairly smooth and has easy to follow instructions.

6. Recommendation for use:  I would this website for everything I intend to teach.  Mainly this website is used for contest, but teachers can order contest questions and use them in their classrooms and have their own contest.  This website is to help students build their confidence in mathematics and learn more about it. When you have confidence then anything is easy to and that is what this website is all about and what I want to give my students, which is the confidence to do math and make math easy.

 

1. Name of website: Cool Math

2. Website address: www.Coolmath.com

3. Copyright date: 1997-2012

4. Authors/organizational credentials: The creator of coolmath.com is Karen (no last name).  She was hated math and found out in college that it is what she wanted to do and in order to get students who hate math to get on this website and learn to enjoy it as much as she does now.

5. Web site design/ ease of navigation:  The web design is awesome and will definitely get the students attention when they visit this website.  Everything in this website is very eye opening and you don’t know where to go when you get there (a good thing).  The ease of navigation is fairly easy as well as tabs are clearly labeled with each subject or age group.

6. Recommendation for use:  I have used this website before for a blog I created.  The sky is the limit for this website.  I definitely recommend it for use by every teacher needing help in finding something interesting for their students to do and for a fun and very intriguing lesson.  Everyone is involved in these games, pair kids up and play against each other.  It has every subject for math on here for the most part.  One of the best websites I have seen for Math so far.