Jon Oaks

Author: Jon Oaks

  • MathZone ScreenCast

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    If you're teaching using MathZone, you may want to share this short screencast about this little quirk about entering expressions involving exponents with your students: http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/8ae126f7-fdb4-443e-8fc5-11165684f596/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com »

  • Sudoku at its Easiest.

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    I have never liked Sudoku.  I think it's very difficult.  So, I'm glad Google has come up with this idea:

  • Get Creative!

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    Sometimes a search for the weirdest things will bring you some of the the most useful things, like this, a link from Panola College of dozens of Free Web-based tools that can be used to spice up an on-line class.  So, do you really want to know what I was searching for?  It was a Google Image…

  • Comment on a Few Useful Tools

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    This comment is more here for myself than for anyone else, as I keep on forgetting about them just because I don’t have them documented anywhere: 1.  bit.ly – You would not believe (or maybe you would) how much this URL shortener has come in handy lately to quickly and easily customize URLs to give…

  • Venn Diagram Re-imagined

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    A student in one of my classes a few years ago did a project on The Number System.  This was the result.  It gave me a lot to think about in terms of just how to present Venn Diagrams. See the full gallery on Posterous

  • Mathematics Bookmarks and Brochures

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    As promised in an earlier post, here are some more examples of mathematics bookmarks and brochures.  Eventually (as soon as the end of this semester), you'll be able to buy some custom designed bookmarks from the STORE link at the top of this page. And as for the brochure assignment, it has been especially useful…

  • Testing Out Posterous Android App

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    Just making sure it’s going to work correctly from my phone.

  • Cities as Math Equations

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    I must have an insane mind or something.  I just found out that Posterous will embed Google Maps right into my posts, like this: View Larger Map But then, I started searching around to see if there is actually a city named 'Math' anywhere in the world.  I couldn't find one.  If I'm wrong, please…

  • Sample Mathematics Bookmark

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    Even though this bookmark has nothing to do with Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions (as it advertises to do so), I do think that it was wonderfully designed.  I just wish that I could find my printed copy.  The student printed it on heavy card stock and even hole-punched it at the top and strung…

  • An Interactive Model for Mathematics???

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    How can we take the model of the #backchannel and apply it to teaching mathematics?  How can we make mathematics interactive for our students?  How can we engage our students to the point that they would want to gather to do mathematics on their own time?