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Evaluating Our Use of Both Types of Resources For Learning in Our Topic When using the internet we found that it was important to consider which websites were reliable. We found information on sites such as Wikipedia, however before we based any work on this information we found it beneficial to double check the information on other sites. Even though we found the information on the internet less reliable, the learning we did from the internet was a lot greater than the learning we did from books. However, we feel that our text book based learning would have been greater if we could have found a text book that was predominantly about Pascals Triangle. Recognising Patterns http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/pascal/pascal.petal.gif How Pascal’s Triangle is Constructed http://ptril.tripod.com/ Maths Alive for Year 9, Second Edition, Driver, McLeod, Ganderton (1999), Macmillan Education Australia PTY LTD. This text book only mentioned Pascal’s Theorem once but it did not contain any information that was relevant to Pascal’s Triangle. This was a bit of a disappointment as we did not learn anything from this book. Mathematics for Australian Schools, Year 10, Second Edition, Ganderton (1995), Macmillan Education Australia PTY LTD. This text book mentioned Blaise Pascal’s name but did not go into detail on any of the areas regarding our topic. We found that text books were not as helpful as the internet. It was difficult to find text books that went into detail about Pascal’s Triangle whereas with the internet, there was a broader range of information available to us which we could learn from. We would have liked to use text books more as they are generally more reliable and are edited by people that are experts in their field. With the internet, anyone could write information and not be correct or 100% accurate.