Jay Waggoner
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Lima, Ohio, United States
About the store
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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Deducing Some St. Pat's Stats, A St. Patrick's Day Mental Math Event
Here's a St. Patrick's Day Puzzle that yields a bit of history and lore while enriching mental math abilities. To fill in the blanks, and find the answer to the anonymous quote, match the date 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
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Mental Math
6 puzzle package,Charles Dickens,A Christmas Carol,2 x-words,2 matching,"bio"
This package consists of all six of the puzzles I've written that involve Charles Dickens. Four of the puzzles are centered about his A Christmas Carol, another is a brief "arithmetical biography", and the other a blended math/literature puzzle that introduces the "doer" to 14 of Dickens' aptly named characters. A Christmas Carol is a foundation for four of the puzzles. Three of the puzzles might work nicely before reading the book - a "math essay" wherein the doer calculates some middle schoo
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Basic Operations, Literature
3 Puzzle Thanksgiving Day package,T-Day Arithmetic Essay,Food Search,Crossword
This offering is a three puzzle package involving Thanksgiving. Included are an arithmetic-based essay where the student does elementary arithmetic to supply the numbers for my prose . . . hopefully mentally. The student will need to know how to add and subtract (which I've given instructions for), evaluate simple exponents, and obey the order of operations. There is a food search where the student will find 20 of the more common foods partaken on Thanksgiving, then uncover a hidden message u
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Vocabulary
History Halloween,Halloween by the Numbers,Practice and Fun Squaring numbers
This puzzle is one that will enable you and/or your students to discover some of the history of Halloween. It’s a mathematical history . . . and "the doer(s)" will be the one(s) supplying the arithmetic. Don’t despair! Each of the expressions to be evaluated can either be done mentally, or with minimal pencil-work. Each of the expressions DOES have at least one square to be evaluated, and some elementary adding and subtracting will come into "play." There are some numbers that end in five
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Order of Operations
CCSS
6.EE.A.1
Charles Dickens,Powerfully Named Characters,Literature,Exponents,Christmas Carol
This puzzle is one of my "blended" puzzles. One of the qualities that Dickens is known for is his aptly named characters. This matching puzzle will introduce the "doer" to 14 of such characters as well as the five novels/novelettes that they occur in. It might make a nice introductory (or finishing) puzzle to any Charles Dickens work(s) discussed in class. I've included it in my packet of six puzzles centering about Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The student/doer is asked to match 14 character
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Literature
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About the store
Experience
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.
Additional biographical information
I see.
I read.
I think.
I do.
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