Jon Oaks

Tag: Games

  • 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…

  • Math Games for Integers, Multiplication, and Combining Like Terms

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    I have some slightly under-prepared students semester, so I suggested to them that they should try to work on their basic skills outside of class.  However, this requires me to provide some recommended resources to them, and these are what I have discovered: Multiplication Factoris – Tetris-style game for multiplication facts. Penguin Jump – Fun Multiplication Game that can…

  • Jeopardy! ‘Body Count’ Category.

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    For some reason I happened to see Jeopardy on 1/11/11 and I found the category ‘Body Count’ really intriguing.  When you read the clues, I think you’ll find it intriguing as well: 400 – Chambers of the heart squared 800 – Usual number of ribs divided by 8 1200 – Pairs of chromosomes times 2…

  • Sudoku at its Easiest.

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    I have never liked Sudoku.  I think it's very difficult.  So, I'm glad Google has come up with this idea:

  • Making Math Fun

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    I was having a discussion with someone today about making math more fun, and a few websites popped into my mind that I haven’t shared on here before.  Let me give you a quick rundown of what I think are a few unique resources (all free, of course): Exploring Space Science Mathematics (http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/MathDocs/spacemath.html) – This…

  • Calculus Activity for Implicit Differentiation

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    Some of you may remember that I mentioned something about needing an activity for implicit differentiation when I went for a job interview a few weeks ago.  Well, here it is.  It really, really, really is meant to for the students to cut the pieces apart and then match them up rather than just draw…