Jon Oaks

Tag: Math for Education

  • The Mathematics of Weight Loss

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    The picture below was taken in college when I was around my heaviest weight ever of 314 lbs.  I’ve always been a big person and I there is a lot that goes into why this is the case as well.  Was it the way I was raised?  Was it genetics?  Was it just me eating…

  • Expected Value Problem using the TI-73 Explorer

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    This problem was for my Math for Education classes: http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/61083c4d-3d69-4fca-a072-a6844e7b3802/jingswfplayer.swf

  • My Experience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

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    Note:  This was a trip that I field trip that I took my Math For Education students on during the Winter 2012 semester.  The original reason for the visit is that we were promised that there would be a display about African American Mathematicians at the museum.  However, that display was not there.  My students…

  • Jing and Geogebra

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    During the Summer 2012 semester, I decided to have my Math for Education students use Jing to send me a diagram of something that they were supposed to do using Geogebra.  If you aren’t familiar with Jing, it is a free screen-capturing and screen-casting tool from the people at Techsmith, located in Okemos, MI.  And…

  • Learning from Ignite

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    If you don’t know what Ignite is, simply put, it is a format in which speakers are limited to using 20 slides and each of those slides automatically advances every 15 seconds.  Thus, a speaker must get their point across within a maximum of 5 minutes. I learned about the Ignite format from past conferences…