Jon Oaks

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  • More Videos

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    I first heard about these two videos from this Tech the Pluge post, but what isn’t mentioned there is that there are more videos that can be found. Additional Videos: Getting Triggy Wit It and Teach Me How To Factor Additional Videos:  Facebook for Math Nerds, Glee for Math Nerds, The Tonsil Hockey Team

  • How Do You Feel About Math? Activity

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    I eluded to the fact that I was going to do this activity last week on Twitter.  And here are some of the pictures that students picked out of magazines to describe the way that feel about math.  Yes, there are more pictures than comments, but one of the comments ‘Math makes me feel crazy’…

  • Scotch Tape and Gas Prices Dilemma

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    So, my whole recent obsession with Scotch Tape sort of began a few weeks ago when the following problem popped into my mind… Suppose your boss wants you to buy six 1/2 in x 450 in rolls of Scotch tape at the dollar store (remember the 6% Michigan sales tax).  Your boss wants you to…

  • Thought-Provoking Proportion Challenge Problems

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    I totally meant to share these problems a few weeks ago, but I wanted to try it out with my classes first.  However, I got so distracted with doing my Capture & Recapture Lab that we never got to the worksheet.  Yes, I did a Capture & Recapture lab for my Beginning Algebra Classes to…

  • #anyqs Related ‘Stuff’

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    If you’re not familiar with #anyqs, start here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10120.  Otherwise, enjoy.

  • Using UJAM to Automatically Add Music to Everything.

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    I just Stumbled Upon this tool called UJAM, which takes vocals and actually adds appropriate background music.  I decided to push the envelope by simply just reading the instructions to one of the recent assignments that I did with one of my classes to see what it could do with spoken word.  I think that…

  • Example of Fontself to Create Your Own Font

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    Personalize your messages with original hand-drawn fonts. Send yours now!

  • Web-Based Tool to Quickly Make Venn Diagrams

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    I just learned about a free web-based tool called ‘Crappy Graphs’ (http://crappygraphs.com/user_graphs/makecrap.php) that if you’re not trying to make a crappy graph, would actually be quite useful to quickly make a Line Graph or a Venn Diagram to illustrate concepts in logic, set theory, etc.  I’ve included a few examples of what it can do.…

  • An Array of Media — Video and Audio Clips

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    1.  JotForm Introductory Video 2.  Article: College Lecture Classes Need Overall /mp3player/mp3_shell.png /jwplayer/posterous/pstplayer.swf if (FlashDetect.installed) { $(‘flash_embed-ywmyppzGum’).show(); $(‘quicktime_embed-ywmyppzGum’).hide(); } else { $(‘quicktime_embed-ywmyppzGum’).show(); $(‘flash_embed-ywmyppzGum’).hide(); } 3.  Calculus Rhapsody (I know this isn’t new, but… a friend who is teaching Calculus this summer asked for a link.) 4.  Math:  It’s Everywhere 5.  A Short List of Great…

  • Rush Hour! Ohhh Yeah!

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    This free on-line version of the Rush Hour Game was originally posted here at the MathCounts website (https://mathcounts.org/Page.aspx?pid=1512), who in turn got it in from the ThinkFun website (https://www.thinkfun.com/rush-hour-online-play/). I remember when I first got the ‘real version’ of this game on a road trip during a family reunion in Canada.  Warning: This game is…