Jon Oaks

Author: Jon Oaks

  • 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…

  • Personalized Learning Environment

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    I always get frustrated when I see articles like the Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education because I don't have to look at them all. I'm probably already using most of them already. Some of them actually stink really bad. Some of them require a fee. Well, you're in luck!  Since I'm taking a…

  • GCF, LCM, and Order of Operations

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    In my Basic Mathematics class we just finished discussing the order of operations, and students always seem to have a problem with it, especially when division comes before multiplication (Sally has always told them otherwise).  Today we discussed finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) and Least Common Multiple (LCM), another topic that students sometimes seem…

  • Jeopardy! ‘Body Count’ Category.

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    For some reason I happened to see Jeopardy on 1/11/11 and I found the category ‘Body Count’ really intriguing.  When you read the clues, I think you’ll find it intriguing as well: 400 – Chambers of the heart squared 800 – Usual number of ribs divided by 8 1200 – Pairs of chromosomes times 2…

  • Helpful Links for Teaching Calculus

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    Here is a list of helpful links that I compiled while teaching from “Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions,” 5th Ed. by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards last summer.  These aren’t necessarily textbook specific, either.  Honestly, although it was just last summer, I was sort of still back in the dark ages and hadn’t yet made the jump into…