Jon Oaks

Month: January 2011

  • Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds on the TI-Nspire

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    I'm learning new things about the TI-Nspire everyday.  This video is from the people over at Tech Powered Math:

  • A Couple Useful YouTube Videos

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    Taking a moment to share a couple of finds of the day…    

  • Non-Apologetic Promotion of Twitter

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    Update:  50+ Twitter Links, including a Prezi about Twitter in Education. There have been at least 3 times in the last week when I have showed a colleague this website and have gotten a surprised look of, “Where did you get all of these ideas?”  When I tell people that Twitter feeds a majority of…

  • Create Your Own Math Games using Sharendipty???

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    This a cool math game for ordering decimals that I found over at Sharendipity.  I hope to make some of my own soon in my spare time (hahaha)! http://games.sharendipity.com/swf/player.swf?aid=1969

  • Math Games for Integers, Multiplication, and Combining Like Terms

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    I have some slightly under-prepared students semester, so I suggested to them that they should try to work on their basic skills outside of class.  However, this requires me to provide some recommended resources to them, and these are what I have discovered: Multiplication Factoris – Tetris-style game for multiplication facts. Penguin Jump – Fun Multiplication Game that can…

  • Some Awesome Math-Related Prezi’s!

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    Believe it or not, I was searching for Prezi’s about Fractions, and I found one here:  http://www.diigo.com/list/aadavis/prezi-examples.  You should definitely head on over there and check out all of them!   http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Fractions, Decimals, and Percents on Prezi

  • Poster Presentation Tips

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    Here are few links I have gathered for those planning to make a poster presentation, or who wish to pass these tips onto your students.  This is a skill that has not come easy to me as I am colorblind.  =D Scientific Literature and Writing: Poster Presentations Creating Effective Posters: An Effective Poster Advice on…

  • Miscellaneous Links

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    After a recent afternoon meeting about statistics, I needed to find a few old links that I had buried away.  Well, here are a few odds and ends I found while looking: 1.  Virtual Math Lab at Texas A&M – This is a very good resource for College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Beginning Algebra.  When I…

  • 10 Potentially Helpful Resources

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    Here is the most recent set of helpful resources that I have sort of stumbled upon out of well over 200 hundred that I’ve looked at today: 1.  Broad Texter – This is a service that allows you to create a group so that your students can join so that they can receive text messages from…

  • Teaching the Unit Circle

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    This is simply another consequence of my poking around the web, and although I haven’t taught trigonometry since last summer, I would consider using either of these ideas in the future: 1.  Touch Trigonometry – This is an interactive trigonometry graph and circle featuring the six basic trig functions.  I wasn’t a fan at first because…