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Sue VanHattum

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Math enthusiast, teacher, writer, parent, lesbian. Covid-cautious. Wondering how we build community for collapse.

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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 7h
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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Source: MathArguments180Download: 18″ x 24″ Poster (PDF)Download: 11″ x 17″ Leaderboard (PDF)Download: 8.5″ x 11″ Handout (PDF)
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#iteachmath Blog post, out today in honor of Math Storytelling Day (and my birthday). Math stories rock! mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2026/09/play...
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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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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#iteachmath Tomorrow is Math Storytelling Day. What's your story?
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#iteachmath
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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.
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Math Storytelling Day Toolkit – Natural Math
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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.
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Math Storytelling Day Toolkit – Natural Math
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#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...
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ch6 slopes of a curve
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This gave me shivers. The post didn't identify these singers. Who are they?
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#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...
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
facebook seems to be down from here (using a browser). Others seeing that too?
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#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
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026
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...
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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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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/05/2026
U.S. Military Carries Out Strike on a Vessel in the Eastern Pacific, Killing One Person
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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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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/05/2026
If you’re looking for the one area law enforcement has been defunded lol
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 26/05/2026
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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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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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/05/2026
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
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/05/2026
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.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/05/2026
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.
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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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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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...
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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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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
disgusting.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20/05/2026
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.
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aliii✨✨ @gigixmelo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Googles plans on changing their search engine to being mostly ai including even the search results…. Google this might be the end.
Gun point with tears going down my face realizing I might lose the engine that would let me write out my shipping pairs at 2am when I was 12 while on another tab while also searching for illegal websites to watch anime.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Expansion is actually easier than impeachment. Expansion doesn’t require a 2/3rds majority in the Senate, unlike impeachment
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/05/2026
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
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We are still a long way from a second civil war or breakup of our country. But, if it did happen, I think a breakdown in Full Faith and Credit and fights over long-arm statutes could be triggers. A nation of many sovereigns can't survive if they don't respect the laws of the others.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"The Trump administration’s use of tear gas has been so extreme — with some children exposed multiple times — that the only research ProPublica found that might approximate the impact is a 2018 survey of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank subjected to the chemicals by Israeli security forces."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Erin Buckley @erinbuckley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
stop them all , this is insane
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I've read @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's Attack Surface. I know where this is going...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/05/2026
Around midnight, Senate Banking Committee Republicans unveiled new crypto legislation. Among other flaws, it will turbocharge the massive conflict of interests posed by Donald Trump and his family's crypto ventures. No bill should move through the Banking Committee without real ethics guardrails.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/05/2026
Spanish citizen Saif Abukeshek and Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila were the only flotilla members detained for “questioning” inside Israel out of 175 international activists, where they say they faced severe physical abuse in detention.
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Flotilla Activist Describes Kidnapping By Israel in International Waters
Saif Abukeshek was detained for 10 days after his boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted by Israel.
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
15 posts. Click through to read them all.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thank God the Roberts Court rooted out all the blatant racism and partisan maneuvering from southern elections.
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Yes. They have ill will.
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I know it's not common to have compassion for her. She's not easy to like. But I feel bad for her. And this makes me worry she'll "fall down some stairs" or something. Like a previous wife of his. He gets rid of anyone inconvenient, in one way or another.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Dialing up the killing spree at sea.
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Sue VanHattum @suevanh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Candidate for governor of CA... Becerra just said, "Chevron. That's the problem with politics. They're not the bad guy. You need Chevron. I need Chevron. [Californians] need Chevron. If they want to give me a check, that's their prerogative." Yes, Mr. Becerra, Chevron is the/a bad guy.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/04/2026
In Gaza, a new terror has emerged for displaced families: Predatory rodents are shredding the tents that residents spent years pleading for at aid organizations and have also begun attacking and biting humans.
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Lacking Proper Sanitation, Gaza’s Tent Camps Are Being Overrun by Rodents
As conditions in Gaza’s tent camps worsen, rodents bring disease and destruction.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2026
As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, all “able-bodied adults” 64 or younger who don’t have dependents and don’t work, or participate in job training at least 80 hours a month are now restricted to three months of food stamps every three years. Previously, it applied to those 54 or younger.
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Work Rules for SNAP Benefits Don’t Lower Unemployment, Researchers Say
Analysts cite the debilitating impacts of hunger and the scarcity of jobs as key explanations.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/04/2026
With local victories in hand and bipartisan outrage growing, advocates want federal lawmakers to permanently close the door on converting warehouses into detention camps.
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The fight against warehouse detention has come to congress
With local victories in hand and bipartisan outrage growing, advocates want federal lawmakers to permanently close the door on converting warehouses into detention camps.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no public or known explanation? Seems fine.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This indictment really is absurd. Trump’s DOJ and FBI are accusing the SPLC of sponsoring far-right extremism instead of combating it. Even though the FBI worked with SPLC to combat extremism until last year. The indictment is ridiculous.
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