Jon Oaks

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  • New Probability Assignment

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    Last week I posted this on twitter after I attended the Math In Action Conference at Grand Valley State University: However, I couldn’t post the assignment online right away as I hadn’t given it out to my students at that point.  Now I can.  Although I had lots of student questions about the assignment (more…

  • More Videos

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    I first heard about these two videos from this Tech the Pluge post, but what isn’t mentioned there is that there are more videos that can be found. Additional Videos: Getting Triggy Wit It and Teach Me How To Factor Additional Videos:  Facebook for Math Nerds, Glee for Math Nerds, The Tonsil Hockey Team

  • #anyqs Related ‘Stuff’

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    If you’re not familiar with #anyqs, start here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=10120.  Otherwise, enjoy.

  • I love widgets, yes I do.

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    I found this to be so intriguing that I couldn’t help but share it: http://www.widgetserver.com/syndication/flash/wrapper/InsertWidget.swf List of other Twitter Chats:  http://bit.ly/ChatSched

  • Using Virtual Tools to Solve Real-World Problems

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    I recently saw this video come up in my Twitter Feed.  It is about a group of teenagers who are working on a project for Abbott Labs, and the story of their teacher who realizes that after working on this Real-World Problem, that the students will never be able to learn the same way ever…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Non-Apologetic Promotion of Twitter

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    Update:  50+ Twitter Links, including a Prezi about Twitter in Education. There have been at least 3 times in the last week when I have showed a colleague this website and have gotten a surprised look of, “Where did you get all of these ideas?”  When I tell people that Twitter feeds a majority of…

  • 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…

  • Comment on a Few Useful Tools

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    This comment is more here for myself than for anyone else, as I keep on forgetting about them just because I don’t have them documented anywhere: 1.  bit.ly – You would not believe (or maybe you would) how much this URL shortener has come in handy lately to quickly and easily customize URLs to give…