McClellan High School - Lion Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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WJ? ww? The quadratic formula, a puzzling concept, brings a scowl to senior, Brian Powell's face. After receiving their daily assignment, AP Cal- culus students attempt to finish their homework before the bell. imwwww Math! 85

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Although calculators can not normally be used, Grant Phillips, senior, takes advantage of being able to use them in AP Calculus. Tackling derivitives takes seniors Bill Ket- cham and Marla Beggsi full attention in AP Cal- culus. ,V , A 1 f' 2,4 ,QVVV it ,,L ' , Communicating With umbers Quadratic Formulas + Derivatives + Binomials I Confusion nometric identity and a qua- hat is a conjugate surd, trigo- 84fMath dratic formula? ls it a new for- eign language? It is to most students. Students began to realize that the merit standards for the college scholar- ship tests have been set so high that it will benefit them to continue with the advanced math courses. Algebra ll is a lot of hard work. It will help me to get a higher score on the PSAT, ACT, SAT, and other tests for college scholar- ships, said junior, Tena Hill. Many students have also tackled the wide variety of math courses even though they have already met the graduation requirements. Some took math because it was easy and fun, while others took it to further their knowl- edge for their future career. Students wanting to pursue a career in law would need to take three years of math in high school including two years of algebra and one year of geometry. For a job in philosophy, students would need to take two years of math in high school. Today's technological developments of society involve more mathematics in nearly all jobs. Some students were interested in tak- ing AP math courses, such as calculus, so that if they make a high score on the college credit test they will not have to take as many math hours in college. Calculus will give me college credit ifl pass the test and I can save money on college hours, said senior, Trisha Frost.

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Communicating With Codes Are Computers Taking Over The Business World? raditional codes for communi- cating in business have been through the means of typing, using a pencil for shorthand, and keep- ing record books. However, students have begun to understand that comput- ers are taking the place of yesterdayis shorthand by hand to shorthand by computer. Business courses, such as COE SL BOE, used computers for word process- ing. Computers were also used in the accounting classes to teach the comput- erized data processing concepts as ap- sr plied to accounting. An electronic cal- culator, a ten-key adding machine, a spirit and stencil duplicator, and a mi- cro computer were just a few of the many different machines and comput- ers used in business machines. JET students learned that entrepre- neurship is people that take a risk to go into business and learned how to simu- late business offices. BOE students learned how to run a business in the class while COE stu- dents went out half a day to work in the business world. 'Q SSXBUSIDGSS ,.,pilP ' Business courses make up part of the day for senior Joyce Wasson. A big part of shorthand is writing letters as demonstrated by seniors William Fellows and Michelle Burton. i Students were offered a wide variety of business courses which were designed to provide meaningful and relevant skills for students who were interested in a business career. These business courses were also emphasizing the new technology of the computer and elec- tronic world. I believe that computers will make all of these skills easier and more accurate. These new skills will save time and moneyf' said senior Yvonne Rushing.