Dan Shuster

Dan Shuster

@danshuster.bsky.social

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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Day 2 of my 7th grade students enjoying the @intelino trains. Today they built an epic multi-level track. Then they added various coding commands using the included color chips. #stem #iteachmath

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...

Dan Shuster@danshuster.bsky.social

#TodayInCS summer school class we did a "screensaver-y" project using cloned circle sprites. Try it here: scratch.mit.edu/projects/119...

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

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On Sunday, I will run the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, while my adult children will run the half marathon. We are raising money for the Alzheimer’s Association in honor of my father and my mother-in-law, who died last year after a 3-year battle with dementia.

I ran my first marathon at the age of 43 to honor the memory of my recently deceased grandmother. Four years later, I ran my last marathon – the 2011 LA Marathon. After that, I injured my Achilles tendon. That derailed my exercise routine, and I was never able to get going again.

A year ago, my father was diagnosed with dementia, and that motivated me to start taking better care of myself. I got back into running and strength training. Thanks to my amazing nutritionist Kaela from the Nourish app, I have lost 35 pounds in the last year.

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

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.

Update: "180 Days of Math Tasks" is my collection of curated math tasks from resources around the web - organized on a Google Slides deck. I just completed task #100 - so only 80 more to go! Thank you to all of these incredible math websites. Find it here: bit.ly/180daysmath #iTeachMath

bit.ly180 Days of Math Tasks180 Days of Math Tasks Low-Floor, High Ceiling, Engaging bit.ly/180daysmath Curated by Dan Shuster @DanShuster on TwiX and BlueSky All sources noted on each slide

Will you be in Portland for the Northwest Mathematics Conference this week? I will be presenting on the use of Scratch coding in the secondary math classroom on Friday from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Hope to see you there!

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