Jon Oaks

Tag: Applets

  • Free Open Reference Interactive Geometry Book

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    Check out this website I found at mathopenref.com I will definitely be using some of the applets here the next time that I teach geometry as part of a pre-algebra course. In fact, maybe I’ll have the students read through this and play with all of the applets as part of their homework (before) coming…

  • New Slope Game

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    I hope you enjoy this game!  I would love to have any feedback if you decide to use it. Slope game Other Slope Resources Applets 1.  Interactive Slope Applet – Although I ran out of time to actually use this with my own class, this is a wonderful resource that lets students click and drag points…

  • Statistics Resources from Across the Web

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    I’m preparing to teach statistics this summer, so statistics resources are on my radar right now.  Here are some that have been fed to me recently: 1.  Prezi on ‘Beyond Tables’ — Awesome Prezi on ditching the tables and integrating applets such as those over at Surf Stat.   http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Beyond Tables on Prezi 2.…

  • Interactive Demonstration Tools

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    Here are a few highlights of some of the Interactive Demonstration Tools that I have come across in the past few weeks: 1.  All Interactive Whiteboard Resources – Although the applets on this website are designed to be friendly for those classrooms with Smartboards and the like, I see no reason why these applets can't…

  • GeoGebra and Applets for Calculus

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    Somethings I have learned just by being a little more observant.  One day last week I was sitting at a different table than usual at school, and it happened to be next to the bulletin board.  At the very top of the bulletin board was a flier that I had never seen before that had…

  • 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…

  • Wolfram Demonstrations Project: The Double Cone

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    This afternoon I taught my College Algebra class about the Conic Sections, and The Double Cone project from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project came to mind.  I figured that it deserves a mention since it's the second time this semester that I have used it in my classes when explaning the conic sections.  It really seems…