One website that I have viewed in the past and knew that I wanted to rate was http://illuminations.nctm.org/ . This website is sponsored by the National Council Teachers of Mathematics. This particular website provides mathematics educators activities, lessons, standards, and other web links for resources. This website definitely qualifies as a good website. This website has good information that is credible and the lessons are at the appropriate level that each is labeled. The lessons and activities are interesting and some are applicable to the real world. These activities and lessons also apply to math standards. This website is appealing as well as easy to navigate and use. The website is also current. The website is broad in that it covers all age groups in K-12 math. The site breaks it down into topics based on Standards and Strands. This website is easy to find, and everything is free even for non-members.

           

            After reading the information on Webquests, I wanted to search and look at some webquests since I have never seen one. I used the provided website to search for some secondary math webquests. I found several different webquests fitting these criteria. I found some to be quite interesting with such real world applications as: which is better to buy or lease a car. I decided to evaluate a webquest that is about buying your first home: http://questgarden.com/45/79/1/070120175316/t-index.htm . The webquest I believe is pretty good but could use some improvements. It has some good information and seems that it would be interesting to the students. The layout of the website is quite simple and could use some improvements and only seems to include the bare minimum items necessary but it is organized. The site is accessible and easy to use. I felt the website could have included more multimedia and been more appealing with color and graphics. I feel the topic would make a good project for students of this age and it is related to real world problems. This is something students might not learn in another way. I am still not sure from the information that we read on webquests of how this should be properly utilized in the classroom. It seemed by the info that this was to be the main part of the daily lessons, but I feel that it is more an outside of class assignment to be completed over a couple of weeks. But, I feel it is not meant to be the main lesson in classroom for that amount of time. I feel this would be a valuable activity for secondary students.