Derise Anderson

Urbana High School Math Specialist and Department Chair. RISE year 1 Master Teacher - #Vanguard cohort 2

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Happy Halloween from Urbana High School’s Math Dept… Taylor Swift Eras and the Kelce Squad! @taylorswift13 @UHS_FCPS @tkelce

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The Hawk and Mr Millward are ready for back to school night at Urbana High school!

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A wonderful afternoon spent at the @FCPSESSL center! We loved seeing the spots on the sun, saying hello to all the creatures, looking into the microscopes, and watching the TRex movie in the planetarium. Such an amazing resource we have!

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After the AP exam Ms Wallin’s Calc students worked on projects until the last day of school.

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We are celebrating Mrs. Tarrant-Coleman this week and her 25 years of being UHS math teacher! We will miss her next year!

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We are going to miss Mr. Matheny next year at UHS! Frederick is lucky to be gaining him!

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Congratulations to Urbana’s Class of 2025!! So proud of all of you!!

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Senior picnic on their last day! Thank you to our community, staff, and Senior parents for making this such a great event!

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Thank you to the UHS PTSA for the treats all week to celebrate teacher appreciation week. Also to my students for the cards and tokens! I appreciate it!

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Mrs. Miller is reviewing in AP Calc BC right now and on her table of activities is the “letters to future students.” Students from previous years wrote letters of advice and encouragement to future students!! Such an amazing idea!!

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Gearing up for testing season here at UHS! NMHS made spirit bags today for our IB & AP math students and donated mints for MCAP testing.

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UHS NMHS Celebrated April as Math Awareness Month at Sugarloaf Elementary school at their STREAM night! Always nice to share our love for mathematics within our feeder schools! @UHS_FCPS

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Mrs Worthington’s pi-scapes are up on the wall! Amazing work this year!!

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Continuing our Pi Day Celebrations and Service, UHS- NMHS collect 135 items for Blessings in a Backpack to help feed students in our community on the weekends! @BlessingsinaBa2

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NMHS students decorated the math teachers doors for Pi Day! #PiDay2025

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All week, UHS has been creating a chain link to represent the digits of pi! Today we hung up the 377 links in the main stairwell! Happy Pi Day!! #PiDay2025 @UHS_FCPS

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UHS National Math Honor Society students spent the past two days UES sharing our love of Pi Day with 2nd and 3rd graders! @UHS_FCPS @SSislerFCPSmath

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Starting off our specialist meeting by making hearts for Wendi 💙🩵💙@SSislerFCPSmath @mathwendi

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National Math honor society students listened to Mr. Cagle explain the math and process of programming a robot today.

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I want to give a HUGE shout out to my math department, admin, colleagues, students, and community for earning 5 stars on our Maryland Report Card! We are in the top 5% of Maryland high schools!! Let’s keep up the good work!! @UHS_FCPS