Thing #17 - Research and Reference Tools

I went on both InfoTrack Junior and Student editionsl and entered math terms to see what would arise. The answer is not much - the databases seem to be geared for research in other areas. Both sites came up with similar references, probably indicating that I would need to better understand the database to craft my queries more appropriately. For my classroom, I did not see much in the way of useability. There were some interesting articles that had little to do with my request and I would like to go back and read them. The results seemed to be mixed - various articles from various sources around the web - largely credible sites with a mixture of education/peer-reviewed articles with articles from mainstream periodicals. I did not see any credibility problems in that search.

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Advanced Research.

I went to the Educators Reference Complete and did a search on teaching ADHD students and got more information than I could absorb in an evening. The articles appeared to be education-oriented, peer-reviewed or education industry publications with a high degree of credibility. A number of the articles contained strategies to be tried in the classroom.

Work Cited 1: Using the Educators Reference Complete, I did a search on Math Lesson Plans and got a few (not a lot) interesting hits. The citation for the article is:

For thWork Cited - 2, I selected an article on a topic that I have used from Mathematics Teacher, one of the journals from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics discussing a new method of teaching proofs. The BibMe citation is:

Dirksen, Jennifer, Nathaniel Dirksen, and Ivan Cheng. "ProofBlocks: A Visual Approach to Proof ." Mathematics Teacher Apr. 2010: 571. Print.