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Dan Shuster
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Middle school math teacher and instructional coach • 30-year HS Math/CS Teacher • 7-year Teacher on Special assignment • Coding Education • Joy of Math • #ThinkingClassroom • Presenter/Consultant • Adjunct Faculty, School of Ed @ callutheran.edu
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Dan Shuster @danshuster.bsky.social · Nov 17
Mission accomplished! Last school year, I was inspired by another post to curate and organize 180 math tasks on Google Slides. Here is the link: bit.ly/180daysmath
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Wordle 1,604 4/6

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Well, that was a fun one!
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Hello #iteachmath. If you haven't seen it already, there is a new, mathy daily game from NYT Games called Pips.
August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Happy Pythagorean Triple Day to all who celebrate!
A diagram of a right triangle with legs of 7 and 24 and a hypotenuse of 25.
July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A student of mine created a really cool remix of this project - one of the coolest things I have seen done on
#scratch

Try it here - play with the numbers in the move and turn blocks to get some interesting results:
scratch.mit.edu/projects/119...
July 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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#TodayInCS summer school class we did a "screensaver-y" project using cloned circle sprites. Try it here:
scratch.mit.edu/projects/119...
July 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Featured #scratch project #2 today in my summer coding class: Big Stripes

#iteachcs #iteachmath #edusky
July 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Featured @scratch project #1 today in my summer coding class: Concentric Squares
scratch.mit.edu/projects/119...
#iteachcs #iteachmath #edusky
July 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Wordle 1,477 X/6

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This is how my 245-day streak ended.
July 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today's featured #scratch project in my summer middle school coding class is a game using the keyboard to move a beetle sprite to gobble up candy hearts:

Starter project:
scratch.mit.edu/projects/872...
Completed project:
scratch.mit.edu/projects/119...

#iteachcs
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scratch.mit.edu
July 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Today was my last day as a teacher after 36 years in my school district. I am looking forward to further adventures and opportunities in education. Stay tuned...

#iteachmath
#iteachcs
A screenshot of the Spotify app with the song being played "School's Out" by Alice Cooper.
June 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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In three days, I will run my 6th marathon, but it will be my first in 14 years. A short thread. #iteachmath #running #marathon #ENDALZ #RunRocknRoll
May 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Since 1980, our standard license plate format in California has been 1AAA111. We are currently at 9 in the front and will run out of these plates in 2026. I have been thinking about this for years and assumed they would go to the format A111AAA which provides far more possibilities. 1/2
#iteachmath
May 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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10 years ago today
A picture of me holding my phone showing the date 10 years ago, March 14, 2015 and the time 9:26 53 seconds in the morning. The date and the time together show pi to nine decimal places.
March 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I just learned of the passing of Roberta Flack. She is my all-time favorite female singer. What an amazingly beautiful voice. So many great songs - both solo and duets with Donny Hathaway.

RIP, legend.
February 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Hello #iteachmath, I am working on a game in #scratch called TENtris. It has Tetris-style gameplay, with the goal of making totals of 10 with falling digits. I would love it if you can have your students try it and provide some constructive feedback (TIA): scratch.mit.edu/projects/1130837008
February 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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❌🟢❌ I solved the #sumplete daily 7x7 in 11:15

sumplete.com
Sumplete
A math logic puzzle game created in collaboration with artifical intelligence (ChatGPT)
sumplete.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Have you tried this new logic puzzle game? - sumplete.com

It's a good one
Sumplete
A math logic puzzle game created in collaboration with artifical intelligence (ChatGPT)
sumplete.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Wordle 1,290 1/6

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If you use the same starting word everyday, you will eventually hit it. Now to choose a new starting word.
December 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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🧩 Puzzle #517

🤔 18 guesses

⏱️ 3m 40s

🔗 alphaguess.com
alphaguess: a word game
Guess the word of the day. Guesses reveal where the word is positioned alphabetically. Everyone plays the same word each day.
alphaguess.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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It's Computer Science Education Week!

Here is a Google Doc I made with links to a large collection of my favorite coding activities: bit.ly/hocfaves
Hour of Code Favorites
Hour of Code Favorites Early Primary Kodable (intro for pre-readers) CodeMonkey Jr CodeMonkey - Beaver Achiever Tynker - Candy Quest Tynker - Puppy Adventure Tynker - Dragon Blast Tynker - Barbie Pet ...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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It's Computer Science Education Week!

Here is a choice board I made for Code Monkey activities: bit.ly/hoc2021cmcc
Misc HoC Choice Board
A collection of activities for the Hour of Code Choice Board inspired by Karly Moura, @KarlyMoura | Curated/Updated by Dan Shuster for the 2022 Hour of Code | @DanShuster
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December 9, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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It's Computer Science Education Week!

Here is a choice board I made for Code.org activities: bit.ly/codeorg2021
Code.org HoC Choice Board
A collection of coding activities from Code.org Choice Board inspired by Karly Moura, @KarlyMoura | Curated/Updated by Dan Shuster for the 2022 Hour of Code | @DanShuster
bit.ly
December 9, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.
A picture of the band Rush with members Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart and Geddy Lee.
November 30, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Cover of Jeff Buckley's album Grace. Features Buckley looking down while holding a microphone in his left hand.
November 28, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Mission accomplished! Last school year, I was inspired by another post to curate and organize 180 math tasks on Google Slides. Here is the link: bit.ly/180daysmath
November 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM