Daniel Scher

Math educator, puzzle enthusiast, origamist, Scottish dancer

[Alan Chan @alanchan_tw]

I’ve been using Claude Code to make 3Blue1Brown-style explainer videos to teach myself textbooks and papers since the release of the Opus 5.5 model. While Opus 5.5 is great at creating animations, it’s not that good at teaching, so I’ve spent quite some time building a plugin to help it teach well. The result is quite astonishing. I've made almost a hundred videos and am really enjoying it.

While building this plugin, I thought, instead of keeping it for my personal use, why not release it to everyone? So we merged everything into Heptabase’s official plugin. It’s free, open-source, and no sign-up is required.

https://t.co/HFKIzBkKXo

Once installed, you can give Claude a source (e.g., a PDF file) and ask it to create videos for you. Claude will read the source, plan a series of videos, and choose the best teaching method for each video.

There are five teaching method in total, which I call “presenters”:

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@preshtalwalkar Haven’t we all become tired of these order of operations problems already?

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@XiaoYao707 Curious where I can order them. Thanks!

[Snezana Lawrence @snezanalawrence]

Any artists who would like to learn more about what does it mean when mathematicians say that "mathematics is an art"? My book "Art of Mathematics" is coming out soon and I would love to hear your take on this.
https://t.co/kzgo5v3HRo

[Tarquin Publications @TarquinGroup]

Explore Mathematics with Origami - Tarquin's newest title - come and see it at BCME today! Bringing you origami projects that are targeted at curriculum topics in an accessible and elegant format. #bcme #origami #maths

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@3blue1brown @ONagel33303 Great explanations are wonderful, but even better are classes where students engage in meaningful discussions. Such face-to-face engagement can never be replicated by A.I.

[横山 明日希 @asunokibou]

目盛り線を120°の角度で開いて線を結ぶと、逆数和が登場するんですね。

[横山 明日希 @asunokibou]

放物線には九九が潜んでいます！

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

My new app allows you to magnify a number line repeatedly to obtain better and better approximations of the location of a point sitting on it. https://t.co/pfMi6hIByP #mtbos #mathchat #ITeachMath

[akella @akella]

my humble tribute to M.C. Escher's "Sky and Water"

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@wangshuo544224 That‘s great! I work on the publications team at OrigamiUSA, and I’m wondering if you’d be interested in contributing a model to our annual Collection. I can give you more details if you’re curious.

[Tarquin Publications @TarquinGroup]

Now available in paperback and in a lovely cased edition - 42 origami projects bringing mathematics to life through the geometry of folded paper.

https://t.co/briHI7rCA5 › products › explore-mathematics-with-origami

#origami #mathteacher #mathsteacher

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 127 years ago

Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@TarquinGroup We're excited too!

[Tarquin Publications @TarquinGroup]

Very excited to see this major addition to our list arriving . We should be smelling the wonderful smell of new ink on Monday I think...

https://t.co/lvUFJQyvLK › products › explore-mathematics-with-origami

Last few days of pre-pub discounts - 20% off with code ReprintHeaven

[Daniel Scher @dpscher]

@AlexKontorovich @snezanalawrence Happy for you to give Sketchpad a try! It’s here: https://t.co/7PLW0W2uhm

[Johannes Mutter @JohannesMutter]

So much fun creating skeuomorphic interfaces with the new Opus. Here’s a Pickett N600-ES slide ruler from 1962.

[げん(Gen Hagiwara) | 萩原元 折り紙作品集発売中 @gen_h]

いますぐ新登場したiPhone Duoのサイズが知りたい！
けどショップに実機を触りにいく暇はない！
コピー用紙ならあるぞ！
そんな時はそののコピー用紙をこう折れば大雑把なサイズ感が分かります
（どういう状況なんです？）
#iPhoneDuo
#折り紙

[Dersu @tak3sh8]

I'm sure you always wanted to know how the tightest (known) packing of "n" squares within a larger square looks like... 😍

[Vince Vatter @VinceVatter]

Published today! Our article in Math Horizons about how Robert and I lied to players for three years in our game Digit Party, and how we used integer linear programming to stop.