Tascosa High School - Las Memorias Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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PROBLEMS ARISING FROM the com- plexity of logarithms and trigonometric functions combined with decimals and fractions in second-year algebra are smoothed over by Bob Howington in helping a student. David Camfield, B.S., M.Ed., Arkansas Tech, University of Arkansas, Consumer math, Re- lated math, Basketball. B. H. Clark, B,A., M.Ed., West Texas, Uni- versity of New Mexico, Trigonometry, Math Analysis, Algebra. Mrs. Carol Clark, B.S., West Texas, Geom- etry, National Honor Society. John Colson, B.S., West Texas, Algebra, Geometry. Jerry Foster, B.A., Texas A8tM, Related Math, Tennis. Bob Howington, B.S., Midwestern University, Algebra, Football, Track. Duane Huey, B.A., Western New Mexico, Related math. Mrs. Bonnie Preston, B.A., M.E., Wayland Baptist College, Texas Tech, Algebra. Jerry Smith, B.S., West Texas, Algebra, Geometry, Number Sense. Mrs. Lois Taylor, B.S., University of Texas, Geometry. Leland Wilhelm, B.S., M.A., Southwestern State College, Louisiana State University, Algebra, Geometry. Mrs. Lenore Wilson, B.A., University of Texas, West Texas, Amarillo College, Geom- etry, Math analysis, Tascosa Youth Council. 140 FACU LTY

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'Gobbledygook' aids student word usage If a student or teacher had walked into Louise Hamm's English class, he might have taken several good, long looks at the blackboard at the front of the room. Why should this be? On the board was written, The golius flet in the somtion is not the ploitism. The twenticiah is sluly the garth of the abish. The minful glutard is that the blutish plation has not yet squiged, where is glemnity. They javeled as kam without atash- ness. This is not a new form of English or a new lan- guage, but a concept of the Carnegie Plan to recognize class forms of words by their endings and positions in the sentence. This is intended to help a student gain a larger vocabulary, and is used primarily in the A- English classes. FAIR IS FOUL, and foul is fair . . quotes Jo Ann Byrd as she imitates one of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth tor her senior English classes. Miss Byrd travelled extensively last sum- mer, visiting, among other places, Walden Pond and the homes of Longfellow and Emerson. KEEPING HER CLASSES informed about college happenings, Mrs. Beverly Lynch discusses the moratorium at TCU with the aid of its student newspaper, The Skiff. Mrs. Lynch urges her students to subscribe to the paper ofthe college they plan to attend. FACULTY 139

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If.: MRS. LENORE WILSON explains to Gary Bonnette some of the fundamentals of basic geometry using a mathematical graph. Ge- ometry 31-32 is required before a student may take trigonometry or advanced math courses. Pupils display talent by using math skills Over 1,500 Tascosa students develop their mathe- matics skills daily in 54 classes. Thirteen instructors under the new department head Mrs. Lois Taylor teach a curriculum of eleven dif- ferent courses. The two related math courses pertain to the basic principles of algebra. Fundamentals of arith- metic are stressed in consumer math and Math 40R. Algebraic functions and the applications of factoring, graphing, sets, radicals and progressions are covered in the algebra courses. Geometry developes skills in proportions and constructions. The trigonometric func- tions are used in the solving of triangles. Advanced students study matrices, determinates, induction, an- alytical geometry, calculus and limits the three math analysis courses offered. CRUMPLED WADS OF notebook paper lie on senior Johnnie Cos- mic's desk as he tries to work out his math problems with the aid ofa slide rule. FACULTY 141