Jon Oaks

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  • New Probability Assignment

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    Last week I posted this on twitter after I attended the Math In Action Conference at Grand Valley State University: However, I couldn’t post the assignment online right away as I hadn’t given it out to my students at that point.  Now I can.  Although I had lots of student questions about the assignment (more…

  • Matching Activity using Hot Potatoes

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    This week I was asked about an easy way to make an interactive activity in which students would be able to match equations with graphs or descriptions with graphs.  I knew that there had to be an easy way to do this that didn’t involve having to know anything about java or any other type…

  • Teaching the Properties of Addition

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    Here are some fresh off the press resources that I’ve created for teaching the properties of addition.  One of them is an infographic that I created using Piktochart (I pay for the Pro Version) and the other is a new paper-based game that I’ve affectionately called ASCII for Associative Commutative Identity Inverse.  I plan to…

  • Guessing Ages Activity

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    This semester I tried a Guessing Ages Activity as a first day activity in my statistics classes.  My version of the activity is adapted from page 11 of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks.  I found this activity to be a good ice breaker for the first day of class.  The students really enjoyed working…

  • 1.653*Pi Day

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    Happy 1.653*Pi (5/19) Day!   Yes, I know that Pi Day was way back on 3/14 and that 2*Pi Day is coming up on 6/28.   But celebrating 1.653*Pi Day is a little more fun, don’t you think?  Here are few resources that you may be able to use in your classroom: Pi Day Activity…

  • New Games, Activities, and Projects

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    In this post, I want to talk about a few of the projects that I have been working on over the break to use with my students in the upcoming Winter 2012 Semester. 1.  Electrifying Truth Table – This is an activity that a friend of mine got from Pete Wildman during the 2011 AMATYC…

  • First Day Policies and Activities

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    Below is a list of rules that I plan to give to my students on the first day of class to try to prevent some of the behaviors that bothered me last semester from occurring again during the upcoming semester.  If the tactics in the handout seem a little extreme, good, I mean them to…

  • “Factor Gate” Activity

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    This problem came up in my Intermediate Algebra class today and one of my students said that we should call it “Factor Gate” since even though all of the students have correct work, they all ended up with a “different” answer. Factor Gate

  • Translation Terminated.

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    A quick and easy activity for reinforcing how to translate words into algebraic expressions.  (The version below may have a typo in it.  If it does, let me know and I’ll e-mail you the corrected version.) Translation Terminated

  • Histogram Match-Up Activity

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    When I got this Histogram Match-Up Activity, I liked the concept, but the instructions weren’t very clear for the students.  I’ve cleaned it up some (again, my modifications), and am posting it here.  This activity is different from Histogram Sort as it covers constructing a histogram verses simply sorting the histograms by ‘shapes’. Histogram Match-Up