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Module #2 Using Internet Resources for High School Mathematics Instruction
  The Internet is a valuable resource for high school mathematics and science teachers. First of all, it is a source of interesting scientific information and statistical data that a teacher can use for current real-world applications of content that they are teaching. It is also a repository for all sorts of classroom demonstrations and instructional materials prepared by and for high school mathematics teachers. Finally, the Internet has a number special interest newsgroups devoted to mathematics education that permit mathematics teachers to exchange information on subjects of mutual interest.

The purpose of this module is to help you to access and evaluate instructional resources on the Internet and to incorporate these resources in your mathematics teaching.

This module is designed for mathematics teachers who are beginners or near beginners on the Internet. We expect that a few of the mathematics teachers who participate in this module will have used the Internet occasionally at demonstrations and workshops, but that most have not used it at all. We hope that this module will help each teacher, regardless of their previous experience with the Internet, to achieve a good working level of expertise with the use of the Internet, and that each will learn to use the Internet in their own teaching in ways that they choose.

Some of you may finish the module by doing some project that others in the group could have done before they started the module-that doesn't matter. We just want each of you to start at a place that is appropriate for you and proceed as far as you can with a project that you can use in your teaching.

The basic steps of this module are:

  1. Accessing and browsing the World Wide Web using Netscape Navigator.
  2. Searching the World Wide Web.
  3. Reviewing and evaluating a selected list of Internet resources for mathematics instruction at the high school level.
  4. Download and evaluation of a freeware or shareware program that could be used for mathematics instruction at the high school level.
  5. Planning and teaching a unit on a subject of your choice for one of your mathematics classes based on resources that you have found on the Internet.
  6. Preparing documents for the World-Wide Web (WWW) using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

As you do these things, we will keep in touch with you via the Module Newsgroup and ask you to keep in touch with us and with one another in the same way on at least a once-a-week basis.


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