Searching with Engines Worksheet

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Searching with Engines Worksheet

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We suggest that you use this interactive worksheet. You can choose to have it generate a printable version and/or email you the information entered here.

Conducting Web Searches

Review the worksheet you completed for Scoping your search for the things you wrote down for the nature of your search and the related keywords. Here you will see why we had you think out this information!

Use at least three of the following search engines to look for information for your topic. For each, investigate what happens when you use different keywords and list at least two sites that you think were useful from the search. You might also want to compare what happens when you use the same keywords at different search sites.

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Results of Web Searches

Use this chart to record your results. As an example, we have listed an example of the kind of information you are looking for.

Search Site	Keywords	Number of Finds	Results, Sites Found, and Notes
Goggle	Egypt Mayan Civilization Number System	6,200	Mystery of the Maya( http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html) leads to the Mayan Calendar( http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc06eng.html) and Mayan Mathematics( http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc05eng.html) Number Systems ( http://www.math.twsu.edu/history/Topics/num-sys.html) is the Mayan number system discussed in the history of mathematics
AltaVista	+"number system" Egypt Mayan	~14,000	While there are thousands are listed, many include different educational approaches for teaching the ancient numbering systems. For some reason the webhound shows up, too! Why do you think that happens? The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System (http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/maya.htm) looks to be a paper written by David Mills at the University of Delaware. It includes small pictures illustrating the glyphs used in the Mayan calendar. Also has bibliographic references to more sources

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