Finance

Games, Activities, and Useful Web Tools.

By Jon OaksMar 10, 2011

Here's a rundown of some of the games and activities that I've recently used in the classroom, along with various other useful links that I can see being applicable to learning and education. 1. Ed On Your Own Crossword Puzzles - This particular link from Ed on Your Own has a list of free printable math crossword puzzles for the classroom. Recently I used the One Step Equation Crossword Puzzle and the Two Step Equation Crossword Puzzle with my students. Even the students who were not doing so well with solving equations seem to be doing significantly better after doing these…

UncategorizedActivity, Cell Phone, Desktop Sharing, Equations, Finance, Games, History, I Have Who Has, Integers, Links, Measurement, Proportion, QR Codes, Ratio, Video, Wolfram|Alpha, Worksheets

I Use Matrices in Everyday Life, Do You?

By Jon OaksMar 08, 2011

I am teaching a Finite Math class this semester and the majority of students in the class are business majors. I'm trying to make the class as relevant to them as possible, so I've been reading magazines such as INC, and Entrepreneur to try to get ideas for things that I can talk about in class. Well, here is one problem I came up with for my lesson on multiplying matrices. And by the way, I put a copy of the pie chart from the magazine on the Document Camera before even starting (I brought the magazine to class, actually). According…

UncategorizedAlgebra, Application, Finance