Jay Waggoner
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Lima, Ohio, United States
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Jay Waggoner, a native of Fremont, Ohio, received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Ohio Northern University and a Master of Arts in Math Education from Bowling Green State University. Jay spent his entire 39 year career teaching for Shawnee Local Schools, near Lima, Ohio. Though he started at the junior high level, he soon moved to the high school level where, at one time or another, he taught every math course ever offered at Shawnee, including AP Calculus, which he taught for the last thirty years of his career. Now retired from teaching, he picks up spending money for vacations by selling used books on eBay and abebooks . . . and writing puzzle books. With the used books, he hopes to sell them for more than he paid for them. With the puzzle books, he hopes to either help many learn or relearn math, and eventually wishes to make math a mainstream recreational activity. That goal will have been attained when John (or Joan) Q. Public sees the license plate - MW1331, and thinks: "My Word, eleven cubed."
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Baseball Opening Day, History by Numbers, Mental Math Batting Practice
This puzzle, along with most of the other puzzles that I write, is a mental exercise in integrating, reviewing, and blending. I want to integrate more than one subject in a learning activity, cross-curricular learning as it were. All of life’s experiences are integrated activities. I want to review previous material a student (puzzle doer) has been exposed to. We get better at tasks in life by repetition. I want to blend a learning experience with as many other learning situations as I
5th - 12th
Arithmetic, For All Subjects, Mental Math
Irrational . . . but Well-Rounded, A Pi Day Advanced Arithmetic Puzzle
To fill in the blanks in this unique puzzle, and find the answer to the quote (and its source), match the date/number below the blank with the letters and events below. If you do not recall the date of the events listed, I’ve given you the math wherewithal to calculate the date. Of course, it might help to learn/remember that a quick way to subtract mentally is by “over-subtracting.” Consider 736 – 198. Instead of subtracting 198, subtract 200; it’s easier to subtract from 736. So, 736 – 200 is
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Applied Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations
3 SEC Puzzles,Crossword,Word Search,Math Essay,Fun,Arithmetic,Vocabulary
This offering is the complete set of three puzzles on the Southeastern Conference (the SEC). Included is the word search (nice for younger students), the Math Essay (nice for students in middle school and high school), and the crossword (nice for high school or middle school "teams".) The intent is ALWAYS to have some fun while learning. The price is a bit of a reduction from buying each of the three separately.
3 SEC Puzzles,Crossword,Word Search,Math Essay,Fun,Arithmetic,Vocabulary by Value
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Arithmetic, Math Test Prep, Vocabulary
Summing Up Edisto Island, Adding and Subtracting Mental Math
This puzzle, along with most of the other puzzles that I write, is an attempt to integrate, review, and blend. I want to integrate more than one subject in a learning activity, cross-curricular learning as it were. All of life’s experiences are integrated activities. I want to review previous material a student (puzzle doer) has been exposed to. We get better at tasks in life by repetition. I want to blend a learning experience with as many other learning situations as I can. Few life expe
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations
Thanksgiving Puzzle,Arithmetic Look Thanksgiving Day,Arithmetic,Exponents
This offering is a nice puzzle to use during Thanksgiving week. It might best be used as a last day exercise in which fun can be had while learning also occurs . . . a win-win activity. As the student "writes" a Thanksgiving Day essay by evaluating arithmetic expressions using addition, subtraction, some fairly small exponential expressions, and order of operations they'll also learn of the history of Thanksgiving while breaking a coded message. The intent is for all problems to be done menta
4th - 12th
Arithmetic, Mental Math
Power Full Snaky Factoids,Snake Facts,Basic Exponents w Explanation
This puzzle, along with most of the other puzzles that I write, is an attempt to integrate, review, and blend. I want to integrate more than one subject in a learning activity, cross-curricular learning as it were. All of life’s experiences are integrated activities. I want to review previous material a student (puzzle doer) has been exposed to. We get better at tasks in life by repetition. I want to blend a learning experience with as many other learning situations as I can. Few life expe
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Algebra, Arithmetic, Environment
Hilton Head History through Arithmetic Tricks,Adding,Subtracting,Squaring
HH History through Arithmetic Tricks is a puzzle from my book Fun with Hilton Head and Beaufort (for the well-rounded puzzler who wants to learn more.) In this puzzle the students will "write an essay" helped, in part, by using some arithmetic tricks to supply the numbers involved in the history.
Hilton Head History through Arithmetic Tricks by Jay Waggoner, Value Added Publishing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
5th - 12th
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, U.S. History
More Recent Hilton Head History, Arithmetic Tricks,adding,subtracting,exponents
This puzzle is one that will enable you to discover some of the more recent history of Hilton Head Island. It’s a mathematical history . . . and you’ll be the one supplying the arithmetic. Don’t despair! Each of the expressions you’ll be evaluating can either be done mentally, or with minimal pencil-work . . . if you’ll employ one of the following three computation shortcuts.
A prelude discusses short ways to add, subtract, and square numbers ending in 5. The puzzle is one that we cal
5th - 10th, Adult Education
Arithmetic, Basic Operations
Southeastern Conference,SEC by the Numbers,Math Essay,Adding,Subtracting
This puzzle is a blend of various lessons that can be done individually as homework or extra credit, or in pairs (if the students are younger.) The intent is to blend some math with learning a little something about the Southeastern Conference. (the SEC) The math which will be learned is focused around learning quick and mental ways to add and subtract, something that fourth graders to seniors in high school would benefit from). The blend is in learning a little about the history of the Southe
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Math Test Prep
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Jay Waggoner, a native of Fremont, Ohio, received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Ohio Northern University and a Master of Arts in Math Education from Bowling Green State University. Jay spent his entire 39 year career teaching for Shawnee Local Schools, near Lima, Ohio. Though he started at the junior high level, he soon moved to the high school level where, at one time or another, he taught every math course ever offered at Shawnee, including AP Calculus, which he taught for the last thirty years of his career. Now retired from teaching, he picks up spending money for vacations by selling used books on eBay and abebooks . . . and writing puzzle books. With the used books, he hopes to sell them for more than he paid for them. With the puzzle books, he hopes to either help many learn or relearn math, and eventually wishes to make math a mainstream recreational activity. That goal will have been attained when John (or Joan) Q. Public sees the license plate - MW1331, and thinks: "My Word, eleven cubed."
Teaching style
It varies with the class and the chemistry of the class BUT as I progressed in my career two things became increasingly important and evident: First, students (REGARDLESS of their age/class) need to get out of their seats with some degree of frequency and up to the black/white boards to do problems. Only by doing can one learn. Students love it. Second, ALL students need constant review. I try to make reviewing fun with puzzles.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Making Shawnee the Best It Can Be
Presenter at several Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics meetings.
Speaker and presenter at many meetings and sessions.
My own education history
Graduated from Fremont Ross High School.
Bachelor of Arts with a Math Major from Ohio Northern University.
Master of Arts with a Cognate in Mathematics from Bowling Green State University.
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