World Wide Web tutorial for geometry students
Go through the following tutorial and answer the (individual homework)
questions at the bottom. Homework may be submitted on paper or as e-mail.
- Overview. Read A
brief introduction to the World Wide Web using Netscape.
- The Back button. Practice venturing one step from this page
by clicking on each of the links below in turn, then using the Back button
to return to this page.
- Bookmarks. Now go to the Math Forum, and explore by following
links.
- Find a place you might want to return to later and add a bookmark to
that location. (Use the Bookmark menu).
- Return to this tutorial page by repeatedly using the Back button.
- Then return to the location you bookmarked by finding it on your Bookmarks
menu. There is no limit to the number of bookmarks you can have (well,
it's a huge number). You can edit your bookmark list--see the Edit menu.
- Home page location. You can set any page you want to appear
when you first start Netscape.
- First, click the Home button to see what you have as your home page.
- If you want to change it, pull down the Options menu and choose General
Preferences.
- Click on the Appearance tab if it isn't already in the front.
- Type the URL of the page you want in the window for Home Page location.
(The URL of a page is its address, which usually shows in a
small window near
the top of the browser window. It starts with http://. URL stands for
Uniform Resource Locator.)
The URL for the CSUSB Math department page is
http://www.math.csusb.edu
The URL for the Math 129 home page is
http://www.math.csusb/edu/courses/m129home.html
- While you're setting preferences, if the type on the screen is too
small, click on the Fonts tab. You can choose from a menu of sizes to the
right of "Size", or type in a size; 18 is popular.
- Click OK. Try the Home button again. It should go to the place you
specified.
- Browsing. "Browsing" refers to looking through a list
of links, and following the ones that interest you. This is a good way
to find some things, usually when the thing you have in mind is fairly
specific. Some sites on the Web maintain structured lists of things where
you can find most specific things. You can find some of them by clicking
the Net Search button and choosing one of the services.
- Click the Net Search button.
- Click on Yahoo--this is a service that has a pretty good collection
of sites for browsing.
- Click on the categories listed (Arts, Business, Computers, etc.) to
answer the first 3 questions below.
- Searching. If you're looking for somthing more vague, searching
may help. Most of the services listed under Net Search allow you to type
in a word or words for the topic you want. But because the searches are
done by computer programs, you can get unexpected results--I did a search
for middle school math, and one of the reults was the Math Department at
Wesleyan University, which is in Middletown, CT. Most sites have information
on advanced search techniques, to use "and", "or",
and "not" and reduce the number of inappropriate responses you
get.
- Click the Net Search button.
- Click on Lycos, or another search service.
- Type the word Euclid in the search window, and click the Go Get It
button.
- Answer the questions below.
Individual problems
- Find the URL for the White House, which is part of the executive branch
of the U.S. government.
- Find the URL for the Math Department at Harvard University, which is
in Massachusetts.
- Find the URL for Mammoth Mountain ski resort, which is in California.
- In your Euclid search,
- how many relevant documents were found?
- How relevant are they to this class? To answer this question, how many
in the top 20 seem to be related to the geometry of the Greek mathematician
Euclid? You don't have to check out each of the 20 pages, but read the
short descriptions the search gives you.
- Now go to the Euclid and Proofs assignment.
To the Math
129 home page
To Susan Addington's
home page
To the CSUSB Math Department home
page