Jon Oaks

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  • Factoring the Difference of Two Perfect Squares

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    These videos are on Section 6.5.  Please watch the videos over the weekend and come prepared with the completed handout on Monday.  We will have further discussion in class. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/301894f5-27c1-4238-aaae-079eca8c2e59/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com » http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/ba07acf4-e5d3-4d19-9da9-83137026f20b/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com » http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/2e18fe9a-1bcb-4d37-81a6-6bd576502414/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com » Factoring_Demos.pdf Download this file

  • Percent Increase and Decrease

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    Here’s a sample lesson on Percent Increase and Decrease designed for a 52-minute Pre-Algebra class. 1.  Start by watching the video on ‘Percent Increase’.  Make sure that students have the handout so that they don’t have to write down the application problem. 2.  Have students work on the two ‘Group Work’ problems on percent increase.…

  • This Calculus Game Needs a Sweet Name… Any Suggestions?

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    I just finished this new Calculus game in anticipation of teaching a lesson on The First Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.  I’m looking to give it a good name.  Any suggestions? Calculus Game.pdf Download this file Jing Video and notes to accompany my lesson: http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/54f7800c-0820-4d28-ab22-63c3ca0ae758/jingswfplayer.swf View on screencast.com » Intergal_Video.pdf Download this file Jing Video and notes…

  • Solving a System of Equations with Two Unknowns

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    A Sample Lesson on Solving a System of Equations with Two Unknowns Before you begin, you may want to print the summary sheet below for reference.  The sheet happens to have a major typo, but I think that it’s usually fun for the students to discover it themselves. I’ve been generous enough to correct the typo.…

  • Pi Day Exponent Activity

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    This year on Pi Day I was teaching exponents, so I created an activity surrounding many of the common errors that I see many students make when working with expressions involving exponents.  I have attached the file to this post, and I would hope that people would know what to do with it, but let…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Twitter Link Round-Up

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    Here’s a recap of the links that I’ve posted on Twitter over the past week or so: 1.  A friend told me that she used this Divisibility Rocks game from over at The Utah Education Network with her Developmental Math students and that it worked really well.  It turns out that they have plenty of other…