{"id":1195,"date":"2015-01-21T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:35:31","slug":"mathematician-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/2015\/01\/21\/mathematician-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHS Library Resources:<\/span><\/h3>\n

1. \u00a0Go to the library catalog<\/a><\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Select Summit High School from the bottom right box (High Schools)<\/p>\n

3. From the menu on the left click on “Resource Lists”<\/p>\n

4. On the top right, click the “Public Lists” tab<\/p>\n

5. Scroll down until you find “Math and Mathematicians” and click<\/p>\n

This is a list of all the physical and electronic books the SHS library owns<\/p>\n

Databases<\/span><\/h3>\n

World Book Advanced Online: <\/a>\u00a0At school, you can use World Book without a username and password. \u00a0Away from school, you will need a username and password, which you can get from Mrs. Overcash in the library.<\/p>\n

Discovery Streaming:<\/strong> <\/span>\u00a0If you use the One Search feature of the library catalog, you will have access to documentary videos on your topic. \u00a0Follow these stepps:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Go to the library catalog<\/a><\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Select Summit High School from the bottom right box (High Schools)<\/p>\n

3. Enter your search term in the search bar (the name of the person you are researching, for example)<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0When you have the list of results, look at the upper right side of the results page and click on the “One Search” tab<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Get Results” button. \u00a0You might have to do this a couple times, but eventually, you will see\u00a0\"Screen<\/a>on the left of the screen.<\/p>\n

6. \u00a0Click on the green “Show” check mark to see the videos on your topic.<\/p>\n

Reliable Web Resources<\/span><\/h3>\n

Famous Mathematicians: <\/a>\u00a0This site has brief biographical information on many mathematicians. \u00a0The front page shows a handful, but if you click on one of them, you will see a list of many more on the left side of the screen.<\/p>\n

Female Mathematicians:<\/a> \u00a0This is a site created by School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. \u00a0It includes an extensive list of women, and each biography includes an author and a list of resources.<\/p>\n

Pioneer African American Mathematicians:<\/a> \u00a0Created by the University of Pennsylvania, this site includes brief biographies of 3 mathematicians who graduated from U Penn, including their contributions to the university and to the world of mathematics.<\/p>\n

Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:<\/a> \u00a0This site was created and is maintained by School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and it includes exactly what the title suggests.<\/p>\n

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: <\/a>\u00a0This site includes a link on the left that takes you to a list of mathematician biographies. \u00a0The site is created and maintained by School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland<\/p>\n

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SHS Library Resources: 1. \u00a0Go to the library catalog 2. \u00a0Select Summit High School from the bottom right box (High Schools) 3. From the menu on the left click on “Resource Lists” 4. On the top right, click the “Public Continue reading Mathematician Research<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/eila.overcash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}