Week 4: Proquest

Week 4: Proquest

I searched PCOS since I had recently heard the term and was curious.  WOW, there was more information here than I could ever hope to digest.  After scanning several abstracts which were very technical and overwhelming, I finally came across one that was more layman friendly and I learned a lot about the syndrome.  This is an excellent resource for in depth research and contains current information on hot topics. The ability to find the correct citation for research is invaluable and is easy with Proquest.

I looked at several blogs and I chose to comment on Information Media Specialist’s blog. She had commented that she could not see any Common Core connections. My comment was “One the big ideas behind Common Core is learning to extract information from articles, pamphlets, or anything that might be published in the 'real world'.  Students need to practice this to get good at it and I've found Discoverer useful in this respect.”

I searched ‘math’ and was disappointed that there was only one magazine ‘Scholastic Math Magazine’ found.  On the up side, I get an occasional free copy and have found many interesting articles and brain teasers that I can use with my classes so it’s good to know I can access this magazine when I’m looking for supplemental material. 

This led me to go back to a basic search and look for ‘ literature in math.’  There were hundreds of articles so now I have another resource for my students when looking for math related articles.

Common Core 8h grade math:

CC G.MG.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects.

The article ‘Crazy Construction’ in the most recent issue of Scholastic Math Magazine has students figuring out the surface area of buildings and comparing it to the surface area of their school.  This could then lead in to finding the volume also.