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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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
An Apostle Paul Book Search, Epistle Search,New Testament History
Here’s a word search that will introduce you to all of the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. Once you’ve crossed out, or circled, the Epistles in the list below the puzzle, arrange your un-crossed out letters in order to find an appropriate message for all Christians.
In a public school with a history of religions course, it will afford a nice starting point for a study of Paul or a major part of the New Testament . In Christian schools, it will provide a review of Paul's Epistles, or sharpening up
4th - 12th
Religion
Sports Puzzles,Vocabulary,Word Recognition,Math Computation,21 puzzles
This offering is the entire collection of 21 puzzles included in my College Conference puzzles. There are 7 major conferences and I've got three puzzles for each conference - SEC, BIG EAST, Big 10, Big, 12, Pac 12, ACC, and AAC. There are 7 crossword puzzles for older students or middle school students working in teams. (Remember! The point of a crossword is to have a little fun/challenge while you are learning something. You are not supposed to know each answer right away upon glancing at
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Math Test Prep, Reading
Christian History,Women & Men of Bible,28 Word Search Puzzle Package,Disciples +
This offering is a complete set of one part of my latest project. What you are looking at here is a set of 28 Word Search puzzles of 14 Women of the Bible and 14 Men of the Bible. Of the women, eleven (Mary Magdalene; Mary (Mother of Jesus); Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist); Salome (Wife of Zebedee); Mary (Mother of James the Disciple); Martha of Bethany; Mary of Bethany; Herodias; Procla (Pilate’s Wife); Woman at the Well; and Woman of Canaan) are from the New Testament and three (Je
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Religion, Vocabulary
Chrisitan History, Book of Exodus, 14 Word Seach Puzzle Package
This offering is a package of all 14 Word Search puzzles that I have written for the book of Exodus. Exodus has 40 chapters and these 14 puzzles cover the book in 2 and 3 chapter increments . . . taking the reader/doer from the exodus from Egypt to the brink of their entering Promised Land. If you are going to read/study the entire book of Exodus . . . this is the best price you will find for just the Word Search Puzzles . . . puzzles that can be done by Middle School students through ad
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Literature, Religion, Vocabulary
2015 NCAA March Madness Word Search,ALL FOUR REGIONS,Hidden Message in each
This puzzle is a word search that encourages a little logic to find the 68 teams/colleges in the 2015 Midwest NCAA Basketball Championship. This has FOUR separate WORD SEARCHES, one for each region at a discounted price from buying each separately. Perhaps this could lead to a bigger project to end the school year; not all the teams/colleges make the headlines as some of the others always seem to. Once the student/doer has found all the teams, if the un-crossed out letters are arranged in order
4th - 12th
Reading, Vocabulary
Easter and Lent Puzzles,Eleven Puzzle Package,Word Search,Matching Crossword
This is a collection of various types of Easter Puzzles that will benefit an entire church’s Sunday School and Enrichment classes . . . eleven puzzles to have fun learning about Lent and Easter . . . all that I've written so far. Included in this set are : Lenten Word Search with a hidden secret message; Christianity, Lent, Matching Two & Three Word Phrases with a message to decode; Christianity, Lent, A Lenten Crossword; The Cast of Easter Word Search with a hidden secret message; One (or T
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Religion, Vocabulary
Christianity,7 Puzzle Advent & Christmas Puzzle Package,Something for Everyone
This offering is what I am calling my Advent and Christmas Puzzle Package. Within you will find seven puzzles, a little something for everyone in the congregation, two that specifically deal with Advent preparations and five which deal with the Christmas Day celebration (2 Secular and 3 Christian). Included are : An Advent Songs Matching Puzzle, An Advent Crossword Puzzle, A Primary The Christmas Story Word Search, A Primary Night Vision Word Search (Secular), A Christmas Noun Vocabulary
1st - 11th, Adult Education
Religion, Vocabulary
Blackpink,5 Puzzle Package,Rock n Roll,K-Pop,Girl Group,South Korea
This offering is a bit of a change from what I usually do packages on. One of my grand-daughters absolutely loves Blackpink, a South Korean Girl group. I wrote these puzzles with my two grand-daughters in mind . . . but I believe there are other girls out there who will enjoy seeing their favorite girl group in puzzle formats. This offering is my Blackpink Five Puzzle Package. Within you will find five puzzles, a little something for all Black[pink lovers/fans. One of the girls is
5th - 12th
Music, Vocabulary, Vocal Music
Christian History,Original 12 Disciples + 2,14 puzzle Descriptor Word Search Pkg
This offering is a complete set of one part of my latest project. What you are looking at here is a set of 14 “Descriptor Word Search” puzzles with words/phrases describing 14 Men of the Bible . . . the 12 disciples + 2. (Simon Peter; Andrew; James, Son of Zebedee; John, the Disciple; James the Less; Matthew, the Apostle; Thomas, the Doubter Disciple; Philip, the Apostle; Bartholomew, the Disciple; Thaddaeus/St. Jude, the Apostle; Simon, the Zealot; Judas Iscariot, the Betrayer; Paul, the T
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Religion, Vocabulary
Christian History,Women of Bible,14 Puzzle Package,Descriptor Word Search
This offering is a complete set of one part of my latest project. What you are looking at here is a set of 14 “Descriptor Word Search” puzzles with words/phrases describing 14 Women of the Bible. Eleven (Mary Magdalene; Mary (Mother of Jesus); Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist); Salome (Wife of Zebadee); Mary (Mother of James the Disciple); Martha of Bethany; Mary of Bethany; Herodias; Procla (Pilate’s Wife); Woman at the Well; and Woman of Canaan) are from the New Testament and three (
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Religion, Vocabulary
Acts of the Apostles Key Players,Word Search,Bible Study,Sunday School,Bible
This offering is a word search where the puzzle-doer finds the key players in The Acts of the Apostles. It would make a nice introduction to any planned study of the Acts of the Apostles, for a Sunday School Class, a Bible History Class, or a Bible Study Class. Upon completion of the puzzle when the uncircled letters are arranged in order, there's an apt secret message.
Acts of the Apostles Key Players,Word Search,Bible Study,Sunday School,Bible by Value Added Publishing is licensed under a Cr
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Literature, Religion, Vocabulary
Sea Shell Hunting, A Shelling Word Search, Types of Sea Shells
Here’s an alternative way to find some sea shells . . . without getting feet all sandy. In this word search the student/doer will be searching for sea shells. Of course they’ll only be asked to find eighteen of them here, and they won’t be quite as natural. But it may create some brain strain. That can’t be all bad. Then they can find the advice of one of America’s greatest industrialists . . . and try to work it into their lives . . . when they take the un-crossed out letters and arrange
5th - 12th, Adult Education
Environment, Vocabulary
2015 March Madness 6 Puzzle Madness,Word Searches + Powers of 2 & 3 "Math Essay"
This is a collection of six puzzles involving NCAA basketball. Five of them are Word Searches (a word search for each of the four region's 2015 teams involved and one for the Champions over the last thirty years) as well as a math puzzle that employs powers of two and three to give a sort of history of the tournament. By the time a student has finished the "math essay" he/she will know their powers of 2 & 3 plus they will have practiced some basic binary operations . . . and decoded the messa
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Basic Operations, Mental Math, Reading
Figures of Speech,5 Puzzle Package,Onomatopoeia,Palindrome,Oxymoron,5-12
This five puzzle package is a collection of the five puzzles that I've written on palindrome, oxymoron, and onomatopoeia figures of speech. Two involve the palindrome, two involve the oxymoron, and one involves onomatopoeia. There are "word searches" and matching puzzles. The titles are: Wheee! An Onomatopoeia Search; Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search; A Love Hate Relationship Oxymoron Opportunity; I Did, Did I? Palindrome Search; and Must Sell at Tallest Sum! Palin
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading
Figure of Speech,5 Puzzle Package,Alliteration,Apostrophe,Hyperbole,5-12
This five puzzle package is a collection of the five puzzles that I've written on alliteration, apostrophe, and hyperbole figures of speech. Three involve the alliteration, one involves the apostrophe, and one involves the hyperbole. There are "word searches" and matching puzzles. The titles are: Namely, An Alliteration Search; Tongue Twisting Alliterations Matching Puzzle (for middle schoolers, perhaps); Literary Alliterations Matching Puzzle (for the high schoolers); Hyperbole Matc
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading
Christian History, Christianity, Lent, 3 Puzzle Package ,X-Word, W.S., Matching
This offering is what I am calling my Lenten Three Puzzle Package. Each of the puzzles within can be bought individually but the price of this package is a little lower than buying all of them individually. Within you will find a crossword puzzle (Included is a one page puzzle sheet with grid and clues on the same page as well as a two page puzzle which has larger printing and grid and clues on separate pages.) Two other puzzles are an Lenten Words Word Search puzzle
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Religion, Vocabulary, World History
Six Puzzle 2016 March Madness NCAA Tournament Package
This is a collection of six puzzles involving NCAA basketball. Five of them are Word Searches (a word search for each of the four region's 2016 teams involved and one for the Champions over the last thirty years) as well as a math puzzle that employs powers of two and three to give a sort of history of the tournament. By the time a student has finished the "math essay" he/she will know their powers of 2 & 3 plus they will have practiced some basic binary operations . . . and decoded the message
5th - 12th, Adult Education
For All Subjects
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
Figures of Speech,Pun,Pun-Filled Definitions Matching Puzzle,5 - 12
This little puzzle will be a nice introduction to the meaning of pun and some practice forming punny definitions. The student/doer is asked to match up 18 examples of words and their punny definitions, the word is in a left hand column and its "punny definition" in a right hand column. When the two parts are connected the line segment connecting them will pass through a number and a letter . . . which will enable the student to decode a "secret message". (This puzzle is intended for
5th - 12th, Adult Education
English Language Arts, Grammar, 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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