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Oscar Levin

@oscarlevin.com
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Professor, Mathematician, Developer, Author, Magician, and Oxford Comma Fan.

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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 25/07/2026
Is it time to start writing your course materials? Want to make them accessible? We are hosting a few free workshops in the next weeks to help you do just that with PreTeXt. And using PreTeXt.Plus means nothing to install and no GitHub required. Info here: pretext.plus/announcement...
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PreTeXt.Plus | Writing Accessible Course Materials with PreTeXt: workshops in July & August 2026 | Office Hours at MAA MathFest
To help our colleagues adopt PreTeXt to meet this need (whether via the PreTeXt.Plus app, or a local install of PreTeXt's free and open source software), we're excited to offer several virtual workshops this July and August.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 17/06/2026
Thinking about #accessibility for your #math course materials for the Fall semester? Join @mitchkeller.phd and me for a virtual 3-day workshop next week hosted by the Ohio section of the MAA: More at mathtech.org/workshops/oh...
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Ohio MAA 2026 Summer Workshop
Showcasing open-source technologies that innovate mathematics education and communication.
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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 13/06/2026
People kept asking, so I put all my thoughts together here (mostly things I've learned from @oscarlevin.com): mathtech.org/2026/06/11/a...
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Accessibile PDFs?
A frequent question our community is asked: “How do I make an accessible PDF?” And, even setting aside the large commercial incentives for certain businesses to make accessible PDFs viable, there is ...
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Mitch Keller @mitchkeller.phd · 08/05/2026
#PreTeXtGang win during the Canvas outage: I had been embedding worksheets and annotated notes in Canvas (Thanks @oscarlevin.com !) from GitHub-pages deployed stuff. Just had to email students direct links to the entire thing. Quickly built and deployed exam questions that had been posted as SCORM.
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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 09/04/2026
oh also lol this is gonna make a lot of people happy #MathSky
screenshot of pretext.plus web app which includes a "LaTeX-style PreTeXt" project type
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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 09/04/2026
Faculty and students can now create a pretext.plus account without needing an invite when they use their .edu email address! We'd love your feedback at the #pretext-plus channel of mathtech.org/chat!
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PreTeXt.Plus | Author accessible mathematical documents in your browser
PreTeXt.Plus is a service that supports the authoring and sharing of PreTeXt documents using only a web browser.
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 03/04/2026
Enhancing digital accessibility of mathematics, hosted by the AMS: hub.ams.org/courses/1291...
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Enhancing Digital Accessibility of Mathematics | American Mathematical Society
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 Time: 2:00–3:30 p.m. Eastern Creating accessible mathematics content is challenging: our current...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 25/03/2026
Oh no! #MathSky friends! According to a theoretical physicist and Scientific American, we just can't agree! Even if it doesn't lead to any more contradictions that calculus. Mathematicians can’t agree on whether 0.999... equals 1 | Scientific American share.google/mA2qoeNbIulE...
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Mathematicians can’t agree on whether 0.999... equals 1
Whether 0.999... equals 1 is the subject of bitter dispute in countless online forums
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 23/02/2026
Another free #PreTeXt workshop, this time on a Monday (3/2), only one hour, and focused on creating a worksheet using the pretext.plus online editor. Register here: scholarlattice.org/collections/...
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Getting Started with PreTeXt (Mar 2026) | ScholarLattice
Learn more on ScholarLattice.org!
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 04/02/2026
Our next "Getting Started with #PreTeXt" workshop is next week on Thursday, February 12, 12-2pm EST. Space is limited. Register for free: scholarlattice.org/collections/...
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Getting Started with PreTeXt (Feb 2026) | ScholarLattice
Learn more on ScholarLattice.org!
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 09/01/2026
Want to get started with #PreTeXt? Maybe write your syllabus or a worksheet so it is accessible? @mathtech.org is hosting a free zoom drop-in office hours 12-2pm EST today. Link available at mathtech.org/events/
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Events
Showcasing open-source technologies that innovate mathematics education and communication.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 08/01/2026
I know that nutrition is complicated and there can be honest debates about the health and morality of eating meat... But can we at least agree that that there is zero way in which this is a "pyramid"? www.npr.org/2026/01/07/n...
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RFK Jr.'s new food pyramid puts meat, cheese and vegetables at the top
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new dietary guidelines for Americans focused on promoting whole foods, healthy proteins and fats. And he has "declare[d] war" on added sugar.
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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 01/01/2026
Excited to share the below announcement for our new app at pretext.plus -- author PreTeXt in your web browser, no GitHub required! Join the @mathtech.org Discord chat to grab an invite code: first come, first served! pretext.plus/projects/80f...
Screenshot of the linked document
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 07/12/2025
MAA workshop on accessible course materials with @mitchkeller.phd and @oscarlevin.com! Free for AMS and MAA members. events.zoom.us/ev/AjygoFh_y...
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Accessible course materials: a practical guide
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 17/10/2025
I know there are lots of great causes to support, but in case you want to help Kenyan kids learn math... www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/open-digit...
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Open Digital Textbooks for Kenyan Schools
Co-create next-generation open digital maths textbooks for new competency-based curriculums with students, teachers and caregivers.
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MathTech.org @mathtech.org · 10/10/2025
In today's blog post, @StevenClontz shares his passion for getting mathematicians (and other mathy academic types) up and running using GitHub tools that only require a web browser. mathtech.org/2025/10/10/g...
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Getting Started with GitHub
This post is supported by National Science Foundation award #2449139. While anyone in the mathematical sciences should have no trouble engaging in the development of software supporting math-relate...
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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 28/09/2025
Use Doenet.org to create mathematical interactives to support inquiry-based learning: mathtech.org/2025/09/26/d...
Screenshot of interactive applet that illustrates how scaling a column of a determinate scales the determinate's value by the same factor.
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code4math Community @code4math.org · 12/09/2025
Our Grand Opening continues on Monday as @oscarlevin.com shows us how PreTeXtBook.org can help authors create accessible and interactive scholarly documents. Join us Sep 15 at 9am Eastern. preview.scholarlattice.org/collections/...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 17/08/2025
New PreTeXt feature: Handouts! If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet). mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
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Handouts and Worksheets in PreTeXt
We all know that PreTeXt is great for writing textbooks. But did you know that it can also be used to create small, standalone course materials? Perhaps you want to create an in-class activity to en...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 12/08/2025
This fall I'm going to use master/specification grading in two new courses. So can someone remind me where the big online repository of learning targets for all math courses is? Or if there isn't one, could someone please make that? Or help me make it? #MathSky, #iTeachMath
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 29/07/2025
This sudoku is full of #math lessons: logic, combinatorics, symmetry, and joy. Try it here: sudokupad.app/qt0xjevecl. Then watch this: youtu.be/ddnLr8jWNeY?...
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Hypnotic Suggestion by Atticus837 (Sven's SudokuPad v0.591.4)
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
if you click the first hyperlinked word on any wikipedia article, and then click the first hyperlinked word on the next one, and so on, within 10-15 clicks you will get to the wikipedia article for philosophy. and i think that's beautiful
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MathTech.org @mathtech.org · 01/05/2025
Accessible Course Materials with PreTeXT Virtual Workshop: Monday, May 19 to Thursday, May 22, 2025; 12-2pm EDT Not only free, but limited participant stipends are available! Info at mathtech.org/workshops/ma...
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Accessible Course Materials with PreTeXT Workshop
Showcasing open-source technologies that innovate mathematics education and communication.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 15/04/2025
youtu.be/27PSHASlGUU?...
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Tom Lehrer - Fight Fiercely Harvard
YouTube video by Jan Hammer
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Tien Chih @tienchihmath.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you're interested in authoring accessible and/or interactive course materials, or curious about learning more, come by tomorrow's PROSE drop in hours with me @chrissysafranski.bsky.social @oscarlevin.com @clontz.org, 12E, 9P! prose.runestone.academy/dropin/
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 01/04/2025
All statements made by me in posts on bluesky today are false.
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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I wish Discrete Math was taught in high school. It was one of my favorite classes. Esp binary relations changed the way I thought about the world. Even now I have a habit of turning irl things into binary relations and thinking about if they're symmetric, antisymmetric, transitive, reflexive +more😅
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 29/03/2025
Shameless self back-patting: www.unco.edu/news/article...
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Oscar Levin Honored for Open Educational Excellence
The UNC mathematics professor was recently awarded the inaugural Open Education Excellence Award by the Affordable and Open Educational Resources Committee.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 29/03/2025
My SIMIODE EXPO 2025 talk on why #PreTeXt is so awesome, even for creating small course materials, is now up. You can find it through this MathTech.org post: mathtech.org/2025/02/16/s...
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PreTeXt for Courses and Slideshows
Did you know that you can use PreTeXt to create revealjs slideshows? Did you know that you can use PreTeXt to create a course website? I gave a talk today at the SIMIODE EXPO 2025 arguing for why ...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 26/03/2025
"However cold it is outside, it's warm when I think of our friendship." -- my Google assistant Suck it, Alexa!
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 16/03/2025
I think we should proclaim today π+0.02 day. Just my two cents.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 12/03/2025
Hey #iTeachMath folks, has anyone tried asking students to use AI chat bots as a "thinking partner" to help them understand a topic? Prompts like, "pretend you are another student in my calculus class asking me to explain limits". This sort of thing just helped me figure out a hard problem I had.
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Tien Chih @tienchihmath.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Wrote a blog for @mathtech.org on how #PreTeXtGang 's features can facilitate active learning and novel forms of inquiry! mathtech.org/activelearni...
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Supporting Active Learning with PreTeXt
While the benifits of using PreTeXt are numerous, one in particular that has been transformative in my own teaching is utilizing the html format of PreTeXt to embed interactive components which opens ...
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Dr. Kimberly Ayers @kdayers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Is the list of lists of lists an element of the list of lists of lists? @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social #russellsparadox
A screen shot from the depths of Wikipedia Instagram page, which is the top of the Wikipedia article “list of lists of lists: 
This list of lists of lists is a list of articles that are lists of other list articles.”
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 21/02/2025
Saw this: tinyurl.com/53225tn9 Thought this: there must be a world record for breaking the most world records in one day. How many world records would you have to break in order to break that world record? Help me out, #MathSky and #LogicSky!
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14-year-old known as 'the human calculator' breaks 6 math world records in 1 day
Indian teenager Aaryan Shulka performs calculations in his head quicker than most people can use a calculator. At a recent event hosted by Guinness World Records, 14-year-old Shulka shattered six ment...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 20/02/2025
NPR reported this morning that DOGE has already saved around $2 BILLION!!! Just think: if that goes back to tax payers, we could all see almost $6 per person. But that's just using regular math. If you use DOGE math, its $6,000 per person! I feel so much better now.
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Tien Chih @tienchihmath.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Join @clontz.org @oscarlevin.com levin.com Chrissy Safranski (who should get on here) and I tomorrow from 12-1 E, 9-12 P for our weekly PROSE zoom office hours to talk about #PreTeXtGang and other open source math-ed stuff! prose.runestone.academy/dropin
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 24/01/2025
Lambstein
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 23/01/2025
What do all of you use for creating accessible math equations? Of course #PreTeXt is the best answer, but what alternatives are there? Please share any good resources you have found and I'll collect them on MathTech.org. #MathSky #iTeachMath.
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MathTech.org
A community of mathematicians using and creating open-source technologies to innovate mathematics education.
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Tien Chih @tienchihmath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Join @clontz.org @oscarlevin.com Chrissy Safranski (who should get on here) and I tomorrow from 12-1 E, 9-12 P for our weekly PROSE zoom office hours to talk about #PreTeXtGang and other open source math-ed stuff! prose.runestone.academy/dropin
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 14/01/2025
Note to self: sometimes failures to push to GitHub are not entirely my fault. It is worth checking www.githubstatus.com when things are acting weird.
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GitHub StatusGitHub Octicon logoGitHub text logoGitHub XGitHub FacebookGitHub LinkedInGitHub YouTubeTwitchTikTokGitHub.com
Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 09/01/2025
In the intersection of #MathSky and #jmm2025, and want to hang out with #PreTeXtGang? Join me the the Sheraton lobby Friday night 8 to ??? to learn more about PreTeXt or do some hacking.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 02/01/2025
Is your new year's resolution to start writing your mathematics in accessible formats? Then you really should check out #PreTeXt. See my piece in November's Notices for more: t.ly/T4zXM. #MathSky, #AcademicSky
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American Mathematical Society
Advancing research. Creating connections.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 07/12/2024
Suddenly I'm intersted... Judge Delays Decision After Learning One Menendez Brother Always Lies, One Always Tells The Truth — theonion.com/judge-delays...
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Judge Delays Decision After Learning One Menendez Brother Always Lies, One Always Tells The Truth
LOS ANGELES—Appearing stumped by the convicted murderers’ testimony, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reportedly delayed his decision Thursday in the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menend...
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 01/12/2024
Curious what #MathSky folks think about the "hook" of the recent Quanta article, www.quantamagazine.org/maths-bunkbe.... My first thought was that it mistakenly treated "conjecture" like a scientific "hypothesis" that researchers wanted to believe. But maybe things are different outside my area?
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Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked | Quanta Magazine
It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 23/11/2024
Counting is easy, right? How many elements are in the set A = {2, |A|}?
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Oscar Levin @oscarlevin.com · 21/11/2024
How to introduce myself to the $\neg x$ community...? Let's play two truths and a lie: 1. This statement is one of the truths. 2. Statements 2 and 3 are true. 3. The second statement is a lie.
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code4math Community @code4math.org · 18/11/2024
Hey #MathSky! 👋 Interested in learning how to leverage #computing to advance your mathematics research and teaching? You may be interested in the @aimathematics.bsky.social sponsored "Leveraging GitHub and AI for Mathematics Research and Teaching" PEP: jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...
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Join Us at the Joint Mathematics Meetings - The Largest Mathematics Gathering Globally
Discover cutting-edge mathematical advancements and network with industry leaders at the world's largest mathematics meeting!
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