Sue VanHattum
@suevanh.bsky.social
Math enthusiast, teacher, writer, parent, lesbian. Covid-cautious. Wondering how we build community for collapse.
This puzzle looked fun. If I did my arithmetic right, I got 1751. I wonder if there's a higher score. (I don't know of a method to use. I did use a few strategies.) playwithyourmath.com/2017/07/27/5...
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#iteachmath Blog post, out today in honor of Math Storytelling Day (and my birthday). Math stories rock! mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2026/09/play...
Playful Math Blog Carnival 186: Math Stories
… wherein I gather interesting math posts for your reading pleasure, especially those related to math storytelling. September 25 (today!)...
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#iteachmath Tomorrow is Math Storytelling Day. What's your story?
Calling all math lovers. Playful Math Carnival 186 needs you. The theme is Math Stories. Got one? (Stories, comics, articles about stories, links to story videos all welcome, whether yours or one you love.) Got a link? Please send it today.
Math Storytelling Day Toolkit – Natural Math
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Calling all math lovers. Playful Math Carnival 186 needs you. The theme is Math Stories. Got one? (Stories, comics, articles about stories, links to story videos all welcome, whether yours or one you love.) Got a link? Please send it today.
Math Storytelling Day Toolkit – Natural Math
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#iteachmath I made a little thing in desmos, to play with while thinking about slopes of curves. I'm trying to make a little thing in desmos for each chapter of Althea and the Mysteries of Calculus. Do you like it? www.desmos.com/calculator/m...
ch6 slopes of a curve
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This gave me shivers. The post didn't identify these singers. Who are they?
Too Tired of bullsh*t to be clever 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶🏿@znerd49.bsky.social · 2mo agoI keep telling yall if Black folks collected honor you in death you were a decent person .
#iteachmath How do we define a tangent to a curve? It's hard, actually. My favorite image is a tiny (perhaps infinitesimal) car on a curvy road. It's headlights and taillights are the tangent line. I made a simple little animation in Desmos: www.desmos.com/calculator/i...
facebook seems to be down from here (using a browser). Others seeing that too?
Have you ever seen a definition of derivative that also deals with the epsilon-delta definition of limit? When you try to talk about them together, you need to rename a few things. The f(x) in the limit defn is not the same thing as the f(x) in the derivative defn (for one example). #Iteachmath
#iTeachMath ♾️ I'm writing a series of young adult novels / math books, Althea's Math Mysteries. There was an error in a proof in Althea and the Mystery of the Imaginary Numbers. I couldn't see how to fix it. So her mom mentions Andrew Wiles and the flaw that took him an extra year. 1/3
Hoffman “was first arrested and charged in 2022 for repeated instances of sexual abuse with a 10-year-old boy, a first-degree felony, and was facing life without parole.” Corrupt Ken Paxton is endangering children.
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 5mo ago“… Paxton’s office struck with Hoffman’s prosecutors a plea deal that gave him minimal jail time and no requirement to register as a sex offender. On Monday morning, Hoffman walked out of McLennan County Jail after serving just 29 days of his 60-day sentence for ‘good behavior.’”
i feel like this is probably the best time in recent american history to be a criminal because the justice department doesn’t give a shit, it’s too busy going through the president’s burn book www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...
Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam...
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U.S. Military Carries Out Strike on a Vessel in the Eastern Pacific, Killing One Person
U.S. Military Carries Out Strike on a Vessel in the Eastern Pacific, Killing One Person
The U.S. military carried out another strike Tuesday on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person and leaving two survivors. The Trump administration once again claimed the vessel was ...
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If you’re looking for the one area law enforcement has been defunded lol
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed asking federal workers to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to a government statement made public on Tuesday, with the goal of preventing them from sharing confidential information with journalists.
Trump administration proposes non-disclosure agreements for US federal workers
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed asking federal workers to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to a government statement made public on Tuesday, with the goal of preventing them from sharing confidential information with journalists.
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omg, this is hideous. I hope he sues on behalf of all the senators, or all people of color or ... And I hope some of those ICE agents go to prison.
Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 5mo ago“It’s a room that I love so much — it’s the heart of the Capitol, literally the heart of this country. It pained me so much to see it in this kind of condition.” -Senator Andy Kim on cleaning the Capitol after Jan 6th. And now he’s been pepper sprayed by a different group of white supremacists.
BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla activists released from Israeli custody after Israel seized an aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters, say they were tortured, sexually assaulted and denied basic legal rights. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/finz9n
Kevin Warsh starts his tenure with his credibility in tatters. He's proven himself to be Donald Trump's sock puppet. And he refuses to answer who cut him a $100 million check for his secret investments – and what they may want from him as the new Fed Chair.
A new report shows that private equity firms now own almost 3 million apartment units in the U.S., which amounts to one in eight apartment units. Half of these units were bought since 2021.
Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
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Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem
Amidst everything else going on, today's Tracking Report by the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social finds that the # of measles cases in the US in 2026 has exceeded that of 2025--breaking last year's record for the most measles cases since elimination.
NEW: Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even once: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Jewish, Muslim, foreign policy, protest, genocide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There are 50,000 words in the DNC autopsy. 'Gaza" isn't one.
The report appears to omit any policy reasons why some Democratic voters might not have chosen Harris.
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Just unbelievable corruption. He said he would drain the swamp, instead he brought in the swampiest administration in history, declared himself Supreme Emperor of Swampopia, and ordered his justice department to essentially give his entirely family immunity.
Thomas Massie lost tonight because he wanted the Epstein List released and pedophiles held accountable. Trump didn't want any of that, so he had to go.
Googles plans on changing their search engine to being mostly ai including even the search results…. Google this might be the end.
Expansion is actually easier than impeachment. Expansion doesn’t require a 2/3rds majority in the Senate, unlike impeachment
Of all of Biden’s failures to meet the moment, few piss me off more than his not using SCOTUS’s “presidential immunity” ruling to cancel student debt. Especially after the election. He had four months to cancel it and delete the records!!! What were they going to do? Impeach him? Lol
Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5mo agoRemember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"
