7th Gr. Math - Mathematicians

Mission:

The mission of the CBA Markert Library program is to teach information literacy in collaboration with classroom teachers within the context of the content curriculum, inspire and develop a love of reading, and provide diverse materials and services to enable students to become life-long learners and effective users of information.

Big 6 Research Method

1.1. Define the problem

1.2 Identify the information requirements

2.1 Determine kinds of sources

2.2 Prioritize sources

Internet webquest, so this is done for you.

3.1 Locate actual resources

3.2 Locate information

Internet: the following sites ONLY:

Famous Mathematicians
Isaac Newton	Carl F. Gauss	Leonhard Euler
Archimedes	Bernhard Riemann	Euclid
Henri Poincare	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	David Hilbert
Gottfried W. Leibniz	Alexandre Grothendieck	Pierre de Format
Niels Abel	Evariste Galois	John von Neumann
Karl W.T. Weierstrauss	Rene Descartes	Carl G.J. Jacobi
Srinivasa Ramanujan	Brahmagupta	Augustin Cauchy
Peter G.L. Dirichlet	Hermann K.H. Weyl	Eudoxus of Cnidus
Georg Cantor	Muhammed al-Khowarizmi	Arthur Cayley
Emma Noether	Pythagoras of Samos	Leonardo Fibonacci

4.1 Engage (read, view, interview)

4.2 Extract (make notes)

Take notes electronically using Microsoft Word and save them to a flash drive or your network folder.

Look for key concepts and good quotes.

Citation generator

You can use clip art on your project without a citation.

MLA date format: day month year

Heading example: 21 September 2010

Works Cited example: 21 Sep 2010

5.1 Organize information

5.2 Present information

Did you do your Works Cited page?

Make sure that your Works Cited page follows MLA formatting: 1" margins, 12 point Times New Roman font, with resources in alphabetical order in hanging format. Double space everything - no more than double space.

PDF of how to do a picture citation (website and database)

If you are having trouble with the hanging format in Microsoft Word for your works cited, click here

6.1 Judge the product

6.2 Judge the process

What did you learn about these mathmaticians? Why is your person important? How are mathematicians alike and different?

What did you learn about research?