Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Seven courses offered; 59% of MHS students Junior John Rusie glues together the four-sided pyramid he made in Mr. Wendall Hurst ' s eighth period solid geometry class. General math, first and second year algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, and senior math mode up the math courses from which MHS students could choose. Realizing the importance of math in future education or occupation, approxi- mately 59% of the students in MHS included some phase of math in their schedule this last year. Plane geometry students studied theorems and assumptions and put their knowledge of the the- orems to work by solving problems. The object of the course was to help students in logical thinking for use in every day life. Learning to work with equations and graphs was the goal for first year algebra students while second year students concentrated on furthering their knowledge of this and adding logarithms and pro- gressions. Solid geometry students constructed three di- mensional figures after learning the basics through text book study. Senior math, the highest math course offered at MHS, had a review of algebra as well as studying analytic geometry and set notation. Also included in their study were inductive mathematics, determi- nants, and inequalities. Karen Broyer, senior math student, explains a graph equation she put on the board in Mr. Wendall Hurst ' s first period class. « l.,.,...,LM.di i . Ti 1 1 n, liuj 26

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Peggy Champlin adjusts the focus as she studies a pre- pared slide of cheek cells un- der a microscope during one of Miss Rose Marie Wood- small ' s biology classes. Science Department Mr. Robey, physics teacher, watches as Mike Sweany, Max Tyrrell, David Bray and Gary Morgan perform on experiment of the coefficient of linear ex- pansion and the heat of vapor- ization. Freshman Diana Miles puts some green underwater plants In the aquarium in Mr. Robert Cooksey ' s general science class room. 25

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include math in schedule Putting problems on the board and discussing them with the class ore a part of each day in algebra classes. Freshman Don Fogle- man tells the class how he solved this problem. Freshman general math student John Hoyden says, ' This just won ' t come out right. And Mrs. Erma Brooks, moth teacher, explains what he did wrong in working the problem. Geometry students Dick Cassens, Charlie Franklin, Conni Bastin, and Joe Arndt work with compasses and straight edges during Mrs. Brenda Maddox ' s fifth period class. The classes learned the relation of circles to other geometric figures.