• Does the organization of my page make sense?
• Do all of the links work?
  
• How well does my web page serve the dual purposes of fulfilling the requirements for this class AND publishing mathematical explorations on the Internet?
• Is my page designed in such a way that someone besides a member of our class would find it of value and be able to use it?
• If someone came across my page while searching for a mathematical topic (like quadratic functions) or for technology resources, would they be able to tell why the page came up and how they might use the resources that are there?
• Might I use this web site in the future, for other classes or to showcase my qualification for future employment?
• Would I want my future principal or department head to look to this site for examples of the work I can do?

• What is the typical age of a person in this collection? How many teenagers are in this collection?
  
• Describe those members of your collection that do not have high school diplomas.
• See if you can find "yourself" in this data set. That is, how close can you come to finding someone just like you? Describe the filters you used and how close you came to finding "you".
• Decide what it means to be rich and what it means to be poor. Now, what is the chance that someone with a college degree is rich? What is the chance that someone with a doctoral degree is poor?
  

Create a group with 1 or 2 other students from class. Together you are going to design an online mathematics resource page for a particular mathematics course (or topic) of your choosing. Although this is a fairly open-ended assignment, here are a few guidelines and suggestions as to how I initially envision this going:

Guidelines:
• Each group member should be responsible for at least 10 different web pages. Although you will create the web site as a group, you should let me know the portions of the web site for which you are responsible.
• As a group, develop a set of criteria you will use to help evaluate your web resources. Here are a number of possibilities for such criteria (alter these as you will):

Evaluating Web Resources This is a learning module on how to evaluate web resources. It was probably designed to accompany various presentations by the authors but can be used profitably by individuals as well. There is a PowerPoint Presentation that outlines the basics of web page evaluation. There are also links to web pages that exemplify the basic evaluation criteria.

Evaluating Internet Research Sources The article by Robert Harris, written in 1997, provides some great suggestions on how to judge the quality of information located on the Internet. Four criteria are given to aid in the evaluation process: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonable, Support (CARS). Although the organization of the site (particularly with respect to the headings) could use some help, the author (Robert Harris) seems credible and the information is... well, informative.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources Of all the sites I have seen on evaluating web pages, this site seems to do the best job of being its own best example. The examples provided at the page are not of particular interest for our class, but the evaluation criteria and suggestions are.

• Your end product should be organized in such a way that it will be usable by someone who comes across it while surfing the web. It should include a brief description and critique of each web site.
  
 
Suggestions:
• Get together with your group and brainstorm about the mathematics course (or topic)  for which you wish to create a resource page.
• Brainstorm about the types of resources that might be available (possible through surfing the web). Some things you might consider are lesson plans, textbooks, other resource pages, class activities, history, research, applets, downloads, tutorials, etc.
• Decide as a group which set of criteria you are going to use to evaluate your web sites and how you plan to make your evaluations coherent and consistent.
• Divide up the tasks in whatever way seems reasonable given your plan (as long as each person is responsible for at least 10 different sites).

Create your own home page for this class. Your page should include, at the very least, each of the following:

• A link to our class home page
• A link to send you an email
• A graphic of some sort
• Links for some future assignments (some thoughtful organization would be nice)