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**Mark Johnsons' Evaluations:**
By: Mark Johnson http://www.math.com/ Comments: This is a great website for students, teacher, and/or really anyone that is looking for help in the math department. On the left hand side of the page, there is a list of math departments that you can get into and search. This website gives help in the subject that go from Basic Math all the way into Calculus and Advanced Subjects, along with some other subjects in between. For that reason, this site is a great site for the grades K-12. This also has good information for each subject and it also gives you the chance to get extra practice in the type of math that you are looking up.

By: Mark Johnson [] Comments: This website is great for students to go on to learn and study mathematics. In the left column on this page gives you a list of Archives and the ones that go for grade wise are Elementary school, Middle school and high school. In these subjects, they show great examples and methods on solving the problems for the section that you select. This is just a great website for students K-12. 

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 By: Mitch Heethuis ======

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 The interactive periodic table is a great resource to use in the classroom to help students visualize periodic trends. The site has interactive features that allow the students to change the colors of the periodic table for a specific characteristic of the elements, which are then color coded to visualize the trends. For example, when electronegativity is selected, the least electronegative elements show up in white and higher electronegativity get progressively darker green. The site can also be used to see electron configurations. The site may be slightly misguiding as it uses a Bohr model of the atom to show electron shells, which is not an accurate model. However, many teachers still use this model to allow students to better grasp the idea of electron shells. I would use this in the classroom in multiple ways. First, it could be used as an exploration to discover periodic trends, so the students could create their own generalizations. Second, it can be used as a resource for finding common information about elements if the student forgot to bring their book home or wanted additional information on an element. Finally, it could be used for some deeper investigation of a specific element that could later be presented to the class. Overall, the interactive periodic table is a great resource for the classroom. ======

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 The algebra.help website offers a broad range of algebra related material, concepts, and tools. Students can use the site to review concepts, get help on homework, and learn how to use their calculators. Teachers can use the site to get samples problems. The site is limited in the sense that it offers a broad range of topics but limited depth in each. It would be best to use this site to introduce or review topics but it would not be useful for an exploration or in depth study. It is also limited in the sense no real credibility is established. This means any material that is used from the site must be closely reviewed to ensure accuracy. I would use this site to get ideas for worksheets. I would want the students to use this site if they wanted additional review or another explanation of a new lesson. I would not use this website as a stand-alone lesson or an exploration it is unknown whether it is accurate and reliable. If more time was given to access the site more thoroughly it may become a more valuable resource. ======

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 I agree, this site would be very good for students to use if they needed to review a certain subject. They could use it in the classroom as an activity to practice their skills. The worksheets on this site would also be good for teachers to use and pass out for practice. This site seems very easy to navigate and I think it would be a very good site to use in the classroom. ======

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 I think this is a very good algebra website. I thought it was very easy to navigate, and being for the older level they should have an easy time trying to find the things that they are looking for. Not only do they have lessons you can look at but they have a section for calculators if you need to learn how to do something or you forgot how to do something. They also have worksheets that are available that can help the teacher give their students more practice. ======

 -JK
 **Kim Purtell's Evaluations:** Here are the evaluations for the two sites I reviewed: **** By: Kim Purtell [] Comments: This site, AAAMath, supports teaching and learning by all the information they provide. It allows students to work on math skills on a range from K-8. The students are able to learn skills, practice skills, annd play games. This sites limitations include that the author has no credentials and you can't tell who created the material. Also, at first the site is a little hard to follow. After a few minutes of clicking around, it does get easier. I could use this site in my classroom because once I teach a lesson, I can allow my students to review what I taught them. They could not only relearn but they could practice and play games with the material. This site would make math more interesting for my students.
 * AAAMath**

I evaluated this website, too. I thought it did a very good job on explaining how to do the problem. It gave you step by step directions on how to solve the problem. The only downfall is that if you get a question wrong it will just tell you the right answer. It doesn't show you how to do it or what you did wrong. I do have to agree with you that this site would make math more interesting for students. -JK

By: Kim Purtell [] Comments: This site, WebMath, supports teaching and learning by allowing students to have problems broke down for them. It not only gives the answer, but a description of how to get it. It is also good for high school students. This works out problems through calculus level. The limitations of this site are that no author is listed but an email contact is. I also believe that for the younger kids, this site is above their level. It could be more organized and easier to navigate too. I could use this site in my classroom to have my students get a description of how a problem is done. It is a good review if the student forgets how a specific problem is done.
 * WebMath**

I like the simplicity of the WebMath website. This will have the benefit of not distracting the student from what is important. In a lot of ways, the applets act like a calculator so its functionality is limited. However, it would be a great tool for students to check their homework and get an explanation of how to do the problem correctly. This would be a great resource for elementary or middle school students to be used to check homework or even to be used as a tool for an in-class exercise. - MH

I think that WebMath is a great website for math. The way of getting the information on the site that you need is simple a easy to find. It would be a great website for students to check to see if they are doing there homework problems right and if they are not, how to do the problem right. What a great choice on a website. -MJ

Here are my evaluations for the two sites I reviewed: **** By: Jami Kidman [] Comments: This site supports teaching and learning by the fact that they explain how to solve the problem very thoroughly. They give you step by step details on how to solve it. Then they show you an example of how to do it step by step. They then give you examples so you can practice on your own. The only thing that is bad about the problems you practice on your own is that if you get it wrong they just show you the answer, not what you did wrong. You could use this in your classroom by having your students go to the website so that they can get extra help and if they don’t understand something they can go to the site and look at the example that is given.
 * Jami Kidman's Evaluations:**
 * AAAMath**

I think that aaastudy is a great website for students to find help with math. This website shows on how to do the problems that the student is having the problems on. The help that the site gives is really easy to understand and that is vary important for getting the help that the students need because the problems can get confusing depending on how the problem is being taught. -MJ

By: Jami Kidman [] Comments: This site supports teaching and learning by all the information given. There is such a huge variety of all the different math skills that they can practice. It allows the students to learn and practice the different skills. Also, if the student gets the problem wrong, it will show you step by step on how to do it. The only limitation of the site is that there is no author listed and no email contact is provided. I could use this website in the classroom because after I have taught a lesson, we can go to the website and practice it but with the computer, rather than with the old pencil and paper.
 * AplusMath**

AplusMath has applications that allow for great practice in basic operations as well as basic algebra. I especially like how they problems incorporate negative numbers. However, this seems to be best suited for elementary or middle school students. Like WebMath, this would be a great resource to check homework or to be used as a tool for an in-class exercise. -MH

This site does support teaching and learning. The worksheets this site makes reminds me of the ones I had to do in school. The site seems very easy to navigate and can really help the students. Although, the site does not give lessons, it does correct the student if a problem was done wrong. It will show the steps to get the correct answer, which is very nice. Overall, this site would be a good one for students to review their skills. -KP