Sahuaro High School - Viva Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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-W-v-A so ' A4 K .WMF l ABOVE: Anita King. solving proofs of similar triangles, works in geometry. TOP CENTER: Demonstratingto the calculus class. Bill Ullery and Dr. Lin khart graph the inverse function gfxj. l TOP LEFT: Fora change in scenery. Miss Black works outside with Mark Lewis and her general math class. I BOTTOM LEFT: Mr. Robert Treat, decked in a Christmas tie, works on the next homework assignmentl BOTTOM RIGHT. As senior class advisor, Mr. Kent,Fisher helps the seniors in designing posters. ACADEMICS: CURRICULUM 91 Pnoros av KATHY Gusmo

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'mls MATH Team teaching, curriculum developments change math Geometry is more interesting than other math courses, because you are able to work with logical figures rather than tedious problems, said Sopho- more Craig Carter. Math is a hard subject to begin with. The teachers expect you to understand it immedi- ately or they think you're a total idiot, said a trigonometry student. More teachers involved with team teaching, two large computer math courses, and an accelerated pre- calculus class were the new develop- mentsin the math department. Twenty-five percent of the students taking math were in the team-teaching program, said Dr. Bennie Linkhart, Sahuaro's math chairman. Eight teachers and one teachers' aide 90 ACADEMICS: CU RRICU LUM assisted in the team program. Electronic data processing aroused a lot of student interest, Dr. Linkhart said. Enrollment was seventy students. Mr. Edmund Story taught this for the first time. E.D.P. taught students what a computer does, how it works. and how to make a program forit. Algebra 3H was a compact course of second-year algebra, trigonometry. and analytic geometry-pre-calculus class. The thirty-six students enrolled were able to learn two years of math in one because they had the ability and the desire to advance at a faster pace than most students. A student who has difficulty in alge- bra, but is still motivated, should be

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12: . ,mfr ja as f X35 MATH,SUENCE 2' Q sf Students, teachers speak out about each other, curriculum allowed to spread it over two years, said Mr. Ron Taylor. He felt that this two year course would be the same as algebra, but it would give the students more time to learn. Mr. Bill Battle said that the students are far more advanced than last year. He credited better motivation and the schedule as possible reasons forthis. We should be flexible, require only one year, and encourage others who want to advance, said Dr. Bennie Link- hart. He also felt that 'the math depart- ment should make continuous revisions so that math will be more meaningful to those students who want to go fur- ther in the field of math. 92 ACADEMICS: CURRICULUM SCIENCE: I think the grading system is very fair: the emphasis is on learning and not the grade on the report Card, said Junior Ami Feber. The unique system of grading by sta- nines was favored by ninety five per- cent of the students. Some advantages to this type of system were: closer student-teacher relationships' and in- dividualized investigation. Mrs. Dorothy Engel and Mr. Ken Torger- son wrote an article for the November issue of the Science Teacher, a national magazine. The article described the system of grading at Sahuaro, and some students' opinions about the system. isa., X 5 rf is E? 'AG I a