Sam is a professor of math education. He hosts https://xitter.cf/t.co/cox2JXrDlp and authored https://xitter.cf/t.co/k2D5y7rrYo. Views here are his own. Mostly on BSky now

Columbia, MO
Joined June 2011
I don't think Twitter is actually going to shutdown, but if it does... I'll probably start using Facebook for math ed, political, and personal stuff. And probably @verotruesocial for movies, TV, and comic books.
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A fun alphabet book that helps 4-6 year olds learn to play with language and tune their ear to letter sounds in the middle and end of words, not just the start (like other alphabet books). #MissingLetters MissingLettersBook.com
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Favorite books I read this year: Second Coming: Trinity by @Manruss and Pace Malignant by Nicholas Anthony How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee Superman Action Comics: Warworld Rising by @PhillipKJohnson and Sampere
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Favorite movies released this year: @BlueBeetle Barbie The Flash Air Rebel Moon Part 1 Aquaman 2 TMNT Mutant Mayhem Indiana Jones 5 Shazam! 2 Dungeons & Dragons 3 that I really want to watch but haven't yet are Mission: Impossible 7, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer.
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Favorite movies of 2024: Dune 2 Unfrosted Kingdom of the PotA Sonic 3 Rebel Moon 2 Godzilla x Kong Damsel Furiosa Red One Joker Deux I saw ~8 others. The main movie I want to watch but haven't yet is "Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird" (documentary about The Mars Volta).
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On July 11, It Begins. Only in Theaters 2025 #Superman #FilmedForIMAX @IMAX
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#Superman youtube.com/watch?v=uhUht6vA… LIKES *Casting *Epic, Superman-level action *Intrigue created by a bruised and bleeding Supes *Metropolis and Smallville settings represented *Additional heroes are present (and look good) but Supes/Lois are clearly the center
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DISLIKES (1st impression) *Trunks *Bumbling, awkward Clark *Music and Font/Title design (but this is my initial reaction, it might win me over in the context of the full story) OPINION TBD *Krypto *Kelex *Lois Lane characterization *Lex Luthor characterization #DCU #Superman
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Ah yes, @Target, the worst check-out lines in all of shopping. And I don't mean the wait time (although it's often pretty bad), I mean the fact that ppl don't know where they're going,which line they're in, whether to switch midway, registers tucked behind other registers, etc.
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If you follow me for #MathEd or teaching-related content, I'm over on Blue Sky now and there's a really solid math ed community forming. bsky.app/profile/ottensam.bs… For various opinions -- political, comic book, and otherwise -- I may still pop on here from time to time.
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CELEBRATING #TEMVP ALWAYS 🥹 So proud of everything TC6 has accomplished in her first @NWSL year 🩵
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#MissingLetters Riddle What word has 6 letters, but when you take one away, 12 are left?
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FOSSIL FUEL EXECUTIVE FOR ENERGY SECRETARY! The idea that Trump is anti-establishment is the absolute dumbest narrative of all time and countless people fell for it
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The hometown kid walks it off #OnePride
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Great reference list from @FiveThirtyEight about when we'll know each state's results and competitive races to watch in each state. Tues night, look for early reporting states and close races. Might be the 1st indication of which ways things are breaking. projects.fivethirtyeight.com…
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cheesin'
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He lies to people right to their face and all they have to do is turn around and look with their own eyes. And it's not random, harmless lies. It is always self-aggrandizing lies. He has a real problem.
Trump: “Every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty” (He is speaking to multiple sections that are entirely empty)
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Trump: “Every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty” (He is speaking to multiple sections that are entirely empty)
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This sort of thing does not improve with time. You may not agree with any candidate 100%, but when lives are on the line, Kamala Harris and her team will bring focus and discipline to the Situation Room, and not... this.
Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage “When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him. Silence of the Lambs. Who the hell else would even remember that? I have a great memory, but they always hit me. I don't bring it up too much because they have to take such a— he brought up Hannibal Lecter. What does that have to do with this? What is it? It has everything to do with it, right? He was… So I've done something for you for you that I haven't done in 20 speeches. I brought up Doctor Hannibal Lecter and we're allowing him, you watch, you watch these fake people will say again, he brought up Hannibal Lecter has absolutely nothing to do. You know I do the weave, right? The weave. It's genius. You bring up Hannibal Lecter, you mention insane asylum. Hannibal Lecter. You go out, no. There'll be a time in life where the weave won't finish properly at the bottom and then we can talk. But right now it's pure genius. Hey, I have an uncle, my uncle, Uncle John, my father's brother, 41 years at MIT, longest serving professor has so many degrees, he didn't know what the hell to do with them all in the most complicated. I understand a lot of this stuff, you know, I believe in that. Like, I mean, Jack Nicklaus is not gonna produce a bad golfer. Right. You know, that's the way it works. It's just one of those things and it's in the family and it's whatever”
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Local authors open house at @dbrl in Columbia.
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The United States has the strongest economy in the world.
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