Laura VanDeKop

Math Teacher at FVCC, Montana

[Laura VanDeKop @VanDeKopMath]

@howie_hua I was born in December of 1976 and next year I’ll be 50, so it must be 49 this year. 😜

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@howie_hua Definitely (2x5)(2x5)(3x3)=10x10x9=900

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@howie_hua 90 - 57

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@mikesev19 That’s pretty cool… at least a minor deterrent. 😏

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@ddmeyer 👉🏻16
👉🏻ease anxiety about taking a college level math class

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@howie_hua 14/40 = 7/20 = 35/100 = 35%

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@howie_hua I love doing these, but would love a resource for them… with your social media popularity, you should start a website to collect them like @fawnpnguyen has for patterns… then we can all collectively contribute… you know, with all of your extra time 😜

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@robins_mckenzie Assuming the upper right portion is a square

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M133 & M234, have a listen

[vanessa vakharia @TheMathGuru]

Dr Francis Su blew my mind when he talked about math SKILLS vs math VIRTUES on this week’s episode of @MathTherapy. What do you think?! DYING TO KNOW👇

[Laura VanDeKop @VanDeKopMath]

Happy #PiDay2024

[Laura VanDeKop @VanDeKopMath]

@fawnpnguyen @howie_hua @MikeFlynn55 Mine was similar, but slightly different… got to the 4 for $2.50, but then just added the $2.50 to the $10 because 20 is just 4 more than 16.

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@IFLScience

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M133 - part of your Twitter assignment is to see if you can make this (or something similar) on polypad and then reply to this tweet with your image.

[Mathigon @MathigonOrg]

Happy Valentine's Day! Here is one way to make a ❤️ on Polypad. What other ways can you come up with?

[Laura VanDeKop @VanDeKopMath]

@10ticks 1%(1000 g) = 10 g
2%(x) = 10 g
x = 500 g

[Steve Hare @sharemath]

A number of years ago, a 7th grade math student of mine was clearly bothered by his inability to keep up with the other students on a series of self-checking practice activities I had designed. Pulling him aside, I told him I was only requiring him to do his best, and that I wasn’t comparing him to the other students at all. Locking eyes with him, I also whispered that “Slow and careful is a 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 thing in math.”

This seemed to put him at ease, and he worked at his own pace for the rest of that year, frequently completing class assignments on his own time at home to keep from missing anything.

Several years later, a high school teacher in my district had each of her students send a note to a former teacher who had inspired them as part of a writing project, and he wrote to me, saying “Thanks for letting me work slowly that year. That was the first time I ever learned math.”

Math that moves too fast is no math at all.

[Laura VanDeKop @VanDeKopMath]

@10ticks I gave this problem to the school leadership team this morning at our meeting to warm up their brains… they had a lot of fun with it!

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@10ticks Quotient-Sum-Product-Difference
3-16-48-8 = 316488

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Origami for math class #MFPE #EducatorConference2023

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@howie_hua I’ll put a hexagon you…

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@howie_hua I answered “yes,” but I haven’t used it since 2009… so I’m not up on current practices 😏