Evaluations

Number One

Search Topic: Math
Search Terms: Math Lessons and Fractions

Type of Search: Key words
Search Engine:

Attempt	Operators Used	# of hits	Terms	Quality of Hits
1.	Operators: WebCrawler	116033	Math lesson plans for elementary	Too large a variety
		103062	Fraction lesson plans for elementary	Too many varied sites
		28031	Fractions for "elementary"	Too many, subjects are to large
		3040	fraction for "elementary" AND third grade	Good sites starting to appear
		178	fraction for "elementary" AND third grade AND Calculators	It was limited down with a good variety of sites that appeared to be good.

The Best One: The Math Forum - Math Library - http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

It had a good variety of information to choose from with a small amount of information to choose from.

Number 2

Search Topic: Math
Search Terms: Math Lessons and Fractions

Type of Search: Key words
Search Engine: AltaVista

Attempt	Operators used	# of hits	Terms	Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be
2.	Operators: AltaVista	1,466,895	Math lesson plans for elementary	There were way to many sites
		2,322,810	Fraction lesson plans for elementary	Still too many sites
		4,371	Fractions for "elementary	These sites appeared to be detailed with good lesson plans.

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Best One: Math Forum : Fractions : Dr Math Q&As, Elementary Level http://forum.swarthmore.edu/paths/fractions/e.fracdrmathstud.html

This website was very informational and was clear enough for students to understand. We saw many websites that we saw that we could use in our classrooms.

Number 3

Search Topic: Math
Search Terms: Math Lessons and Fractions

Type of Search: Key words
Search Engine: Dog Pile

Attempt	Operators used	# of hits	Terms	Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be
3.	Operators: Dog Pile	10	Math lesson plans for elementary	Math lesson plans for elementary

Best One: Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/

This site was the best site overall because of the neat graphics and eye catching detail.

The Overall Best Award Goes Too:

Cynthia Lanius found on Dog Pile-Congratulations!

We believe that the best website was the last one that we found. Dog Pile had all of the qualifications to meet Kathy Schrocks criteria. The website was well-organized and very user friendly. It had links so that you could go any where with the minimum of two clicks. The author is listed and is available through e-mail for questions. Comparing this site to the others that we search we found that this one contained better information and the type of information that we were looking for to use in the classroom. The other searches were way to broad and the detail of each site was lacking in information that we needed.

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