New blog post. Would you like to write a simple story for Math Storytelling Day? mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2025/09/math...

I have created a course. It's "A bit of Geometry, a bit of Trig", and it uses the soon-to-be-published Althea and the Mysteries of Triangles, Circles, and Pi (along with an activity book) as its curriculum. If you know anyone who might be interested, let them know. sites.google.com/view/mathwit...

Starting work on Playful Math Carnival #182, to post later in the month. The theme will be math storytelling. If you have blog posts (or other online offerings) that would fit this theme, send me a link! Here's #181: naturestudyaustralia.com.au/playful-math...

As a former Billionaires for Bush street theater performer, allow me to translate: "I really wanted Lander, who stands for everything Cuomo's against. So I gave Cuomo $250K to fuel his disinformation efforts bec fuck my ethics and fuck NYC, buying politicians for quid pro quo favors is the move."

This is actually a quote from an article called - Concerning the Violent Peace-Police davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero" now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

@aoc.bsky.social I get donation requests by email that don't actually tell me what you're doing. (I delete those.) You were reposted on fb from a meaty post here. Donating now.

Yes to all of this!

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

I just blocked someone who called masking virtue signaling. So silly. Masking keeps the virus out of my body. I was novid until this September. (Not careful enough while traveling.) I have a healthy fear of cognitive decline, and hope that my one experience with covid is my only one.

The issuing of the warrants means that the Israeli officials could be arrested if they stepped foot in countries that are party to the ICC statute and that would comply with the warrant. Practically, this means that Netanyahu and Gallant will avoid certain countries when traveling abroad.

the U.S. press does not require that Republicans take real ownership of unpopular and harmful policy I know a lot of folks at major outlets are conditioned to BELIEVE they do, but they really don't, and never have

As an emergency physician from day 1 of the pandemic, who was offered a COVID vaccine the first week it was available, I had watched young, healthy people die in alarming ways, but I was worried about sticking this stuff into my arm that was approved under an emergency authorization. 1/

In the wake of the election, many people have asked me why tragic stories of abortion denial, some of which resulted in death, weren’t enough to swing the presidential race, often evoking the case of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/11/21/a...

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

The first really new (to me) thing I've learned from A People's History of Science (starting on page 41) is about Polynesian navigation. For thousands of years, people have traveled thousands of miles between islands in the Pacific.

National Archives opens portal to the investigative files of Civil Rights Cold Cases. It’s a work in progress but contains some amazing and moving records of Jim Crow injustice… (h/t @clancyny.bsky.social) www.archives.gov/press/press-...

No one thinks McBride is a threat to anyone. Pulling this shit only further confirms that the anti-trans stuff was never about safety. It’s performative cruelty to dehumanize and humiliate trans people.

Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power

@bsky.app When I go away and come back, I'd sure like my scrolling to start below the things I've already scrolled by, instead of showing me the same things over again.

Nuclear is “not carbon-free,” says Diné organizer Leona Morgan, who highlights the fuel costs and environmental contamination — particularly within and around Indigenous communities in the Southwest United States — of the uranium mining required to produce nuclear power.

I've gotten lots of great feedback on my young adult novel, Althea and the Mysteries of Triangles, Circles, and Pi. But almost all of it has been from adults. I'd love to hear from more young people. One question I know the adults can't answer well is whether the characters seem real. (continued)

Yesterday I posted 10 facts about me for the math crowd. When I started on BlueSky (a whole year ago?!), it seemed like it was only math folks. BlueSky is exploding with new accounts now. Maybe the rest of me will be represented. Here's 10 more facts about me. (Non-math this time.) (continued)

This should terrify every American. It doesn’t matter where you stand on immigration. Using our military as a domestic law enforcement tool at mass scale will destroy its core purpose, turn the American people against them, and damage the institution for decades.

I added The Guardian to my feed. Too much sports! I wonder if there's a way to get everything but the sports and celebrities. (ie real news and deep pieces)

Both? Neither? Hmm...

#iteachmath 10 facts about me (for the math crowd): 1. I taught for over 30 years. 2. I retired because teaching online was less fun, more work, and less effective than in person, but I won't be in a room with that many people since 2020. It is not safe. (continued in reply)

I just started reading A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks", by Clifford Conner. (I mainly wanted to learn more about the development of calculus. But I'm excited to see what else is here.) Want to read together? (I could host a zoom every few weeks.) Let me know.

thank you to Amy Goodman and the entire DN! team for having me.

In Sri Lanka, the leftist coalition of the new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections.

"During Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, we’ve just seen private prison companies take over even more and more of immigration detention."

If you're new to thinking about #resistance, here are some non-intuitive & also low/non-risk actions to take: Read to children - start way before they know their abc's & continue past when they can read for themselves. Grow some food. Know your neighbors, esp if they're marginalized/vulnerable.

Please read and use. Important. Please share.

#ITeachMath I saw an interesting post here, and now I can't find it. It pointed me to a website called Underground Mathematics, and a cool-looking activity with integrals. I'd love to credit the post I saw... undergroundmathematics.org/calculus-of-...

I think kids would be safer from pandemics if classrooms were way smaller, like 10 kids per class. I doubt that will happen under capitalism. #EduSky

#iteachmath Writing Althea mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2024/11/writ...

#awf #awayforward All my friends who are looking for a way forward, can you write a post with these tags? That might help us make a starter pack.

@fendruadin.bsky.social Hi, Fen! Welcome.

Have you heard of the Playful Math Carnival? A gathering of blog posts and such, coming out most months. mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2024/08/play...

I hardly ever come here, but fb is messing up, so I figured I ought to check this account out. I had to change my pw because my computer doesn't have it, and I sure don't remember pws. Yikes.

I need beta readers for Althea and the Mysteries of Triangles, Circles, and Pi (a young adult novel with math at the center). Contact me at [email protected].

I need beta readers for Althea and the Mysteries of Triangles, Circles, and Pi (a young adult novel). Join a free online math circle for students age 12 to 15 (with some algebra skills), that meets for 9 weeks in March and April. More info at my blog: mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/.../openings....