Jon Oaks

Tag: Mindmapping

  • Mind Maps for Calculus, Algebra, and Statistics

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    This semester I decided that I wanted to organize all of the resources that I’ve found on the Internet onto Mind Maps for my Calculus, Algebra, and Statistics classes.  There was just too much that I wanted to tell my students about every semester that it started to become too overwhelming to repost the links…

  • Links to Student Created MindMaps

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    These are some MindMaps that were created by some of my former students in a Pre-Algebra course. Football Coaching VS. Math – Juan's MindMap Algebra – Betty's MindMap Addition – Porche's MindMap Math OverView – Shaniqua's MindMap Whole Numbers – Holly's MindMap Basic Math Help – Matt's MindMap Integers – Rico's MindMap Positive & Negative Numbers – Jamal's MindMap Algebra – Jaron's MindMap Income –…

  • MindMap for Basic Mathematics Project

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    I learned a lot from the class that I took on Online Learning and Teaching this semester.  We used the book Understanding by Design by Wiggins and McTighe.  This course has revolutionized the entire way that I think about teaching and learning.  As of late, when planning lessons, I keep finding myself needing to list the…

  • Link to My Guest Post on the Mindomo Blog

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    I really hope that you find this useful: http://blog.mindomo.com/2011/02/guest-post-mr-oaks-the-math-teacher.html

  • 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…

  • 10 Potentially Helpful Resources

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    Here is the most recent set of helpful resources that I have sort of stumbled upon out of well over 200 hundred that I’ve looked at today: 1.  Broad Texter – This is a service that allows you to create a group so that your students can join so that they can receive text messages from…

  • Mindmaps

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    This semester I'm taking a class on Online Teaching and Learning (IST 670) at Oakland University.  It's a new class, so the instructor is developing the syllabus around our interests.  Wednesday was our first class.  During the discussion we talked about creating a database in MOODLE so that students could organize their thoughts and then…