Jon Oaks

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  • Teaching Signed Numbers with Zombies, Ghostbusters, and Night Vision Goggles

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    Here are three new application problems that I came up with while teaching signed numbers this morning.  Remember, I came up with these on the spot, during class.  So, just imagine that the entire class is paying attention to each of these problems as I am writing them, trying to figure out what is going…

  • Regression on the Calculator

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    Here are a few notes on regression and other stuff I’ve noticed over the past week: 1.  Remember my calculator post from last week?  Well, some of my Finite Math students were still having a little bit of trouble using the calculator to do Regression on the calculator.  This website on Cubic Regression seems to…

  • Thousands of FREE Learning Resources

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    I have heard about these websites from various places throughout the past week.  I hijacked a few of the descriptions, but I would rather give a hijacked description rather than an inaccurate description. 1.  CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.…

  • Interactive Demonstration Tools

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    Here are a few highlights of some of the Interactive Demonstration Tools that I have come across in the past few weeks: 1.  All Interactive Whiteboard Resources – Although the applets on this website are designed to be friendly for those classrooms with Smartboards and the like, I see no reason why these applets can't…

  • Joliprint, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Teaching Measurement

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    There have been so many times when I have wanted to print something from the web, but have had a very hard time getting it to print out correctly.  Joliprint is a resource that will definitely solve (most) of your problems.  For example, the other day, I printed this Convert, then Compete blog post from the Chronicle…

  • Tech Resources for Teachers: Backchanneling and more!

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    Over the past few months I have been trying to totally emerge myself into the world of Instructional Technology.  I have seen so many resources and as we all know, they eventually become repetitive.  I hate reading a list of "The Top Best New 100 Resources for Teachers" and half of them I already know…

  • Graphing Calculator Issues

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    In my Finite Math class I have been heavily stressing the use of the graphing calculator, especially since the college requires the calculator for the course.  I would definitely show the students how to use the graphing calculator anyway, it’s just that since it’s required, I feel as if I have an extra obligation to…

  • Mid-Week Ideas, Anyone?

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    A couple of things I came across this week.  Of course, there were more, but here are the highlights: 1.  TI-Nspire Videos over at Atomic Learning – These are wonderful walk-through videos which cover the basics, graphs and geometry, lists and spreadsheets, data and statistics, calculator and data collection. 2.  TopicMarks – I heard about…

  • Link to My Guest Post on the Mindomo Blog

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    I really hope that you find this useful: http://blog.mindomo.com/2011/02/guest-post-mr-oaks-the-math-teacher.html

  • A Paper Idea for Learning to Plot Points

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    First of all, congratulations to Maria Andersen for winning the Mindomo MindMap of the Week.  Now, let’s document my journey over the next 30 minutes or so after I started hunting around the Play and Learn Mind Map.  And this is truly interesting, as it might show you exactly how I think sometimes. I started with…