Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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To help undersland lufure mafh assignmenTs, senior Jeanna Byrd Talres noTes as her elemenlary analysis Teacher Jim Sfones reviews The homeworlr aT The board. WIIBII ll illl EIII S llll While maTh courses were TradiTionally Talcen only as required classes, many sTudenTs began To realize The imporTance of Taking higher maTh Tor TuTure business plans. MandaTory courses included Two years ol TundamenTals oT maTh. lnTroducTion To Algebra l or Il, and geomeTry. 80 MaTh 5 5-A 'P- x n Freshman Doug l-lowey concenTraTed his eTTorTs on oTher aspecTs OT school, raTher Than maTh, reasoning ThaT l don'T plan on making a career in maTh. Some Treshmen were advised in iunior high To Take an inTroducTory maTh course aTTer sTruggling Through eighTh grade maTh courses. ElecTive maTh courses included Algebra Il, TrigonomeTry, elemenTary analysis. calculus. maTh oT consumer economics, and compuTer maTh. CompuTer maTh Teacher Owen Mclvlahon said. MosT compuTer maTh sTudenTs are Taking oTher maTh elecTives. ATTer meeTing The prerequisiTes, iunior Sdenlca Aguilar conTinued The maTh program wiTh elemenTary analysis because l'm going inTo a business Tield which requires a loT of maTh. AnoTher popular maTh elecTive included maTh of consumer economics. Bill Menz, Tafher OT iunior MOCE sTudenT Bruce Menz, and owner of Red Caboose RealTy, spoke To Joan GoTTlieb's classes on The value oT buying a house as opposed To renTing an aparTmenT. Menz enjoyed The class because basically, iT deals wiTh everyday life siTuaTions where you're spending money. Perabolas inTroduced iunior RoberT STuarT To a new aspecT of Algebra ll as he compleTes a graph. I . The course also includedo secTion ThaT dealT wiTh comparaTive shopping. We read consumer magazines ThaT compare The same lcind oT producTs To diTTerenT brand names To see which ones save energy and which ones are besT, he said. CompuTer maTh sTudenTs expanded Their maTh know- how by learning Two compuTer languages. BASIC and FORTRAN, Two languages which are very widely used ThroughouTTl1e modern world oT compufers. lv1cMahonTeelsThaT iT provides diTTerenT inTeresls Tor diTTerenT personaliTies- some like The sci-Ti TascinaTion -The why? ll oTTered sTudenTs The chance To be creaTive. They creafe Their own personal soluTionT0 a problem: all are a liffle diTTerenT. al ill, if I 1 T' :SQ ...ff Oi: , 4 V, in D 1

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With a Torch in his hand, senior Brad Bloomer works on a meial lab proieCT which requireg assembling a large bird cage Tor Coach KurT Poole's cockaToo. Gallucci said. IT seemed like a long Time period buT The proiecTs were very Time consuming and we weren'T allowed To work on Them ouT oT class. Along wiTh The many individual proiecTs accomplished ThroughouT The year, Jim l:raughTen, meTal shop Teacher, assigned group proiecTs involving The maior uniTs oT sTudy which consisTed oi compounds oT meTal, OperaTinq machinery and compuTing dimensions, iunior Chris MoTherwellsaid. T WiTh The lndusTrial ArTs Fair only a Tew weeks away. senior Ricky Carlson skefches his own one sTory house in ArchiTecTure. ' 5: 'V .5e33s ', ,:5g,.2:- . Busily laying ouT work Tor Table I legs. sophomores Paul Casso and LoThar BaTschauer Trace ouT The righT proporTions for Their own individual Tables. I DraTTing, as well as oTher l.A. courses oTTered, demanded neaTness, uniTormiTy, and parTicular aTTenTion To exacT deTails. You have goT To have a sTeady hand and know how To Tigure wiTh scales and sizes, senior Daryl Warren said. Affer repairing his car engine. iunior Bobby Uzzi receives help Trom senior Terry PeTers in pre- paring The cylinder head Tor insTallaTion in his T974 Vega. . f Si. I A micomefer is used To check The diameTer oT a parT in The meTal laThe as Treshman Greg SmoTek begins producing a cenTer punch as parT of a required proiecT. ' lndusTrialArTs

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5 Il Junior Algebra ll sfudenfs, Danny Bum and Tanya Milli- gan, lisrenedplo Anna Oeding as she reviewed answers ro a fesl' over quadrafic equafions. . If-X ' Assisiing iunior Jeff Rusinovich 4 wifh a consumer economics problem on rhe felefype com- pufer, Joan Gofflieb reviews The problem carefully before fyping in fhe nexi' funchon. K Linear equafions were iusf anofher sfep leading iunior Lana Dial up 'ro ellipses, circles, and Wiih pencil in hand and calcula- +or wifhin reach, iunior Elisa Bel- lows complefes a linear equafion in Kathy May's Algebra Il class. .JV parabolas in Algebra ll. if i As 'lhey choose a iob from a career choice file in Joan Goff- lieb's MOCE class. iunior Sco1'+ Schanen and seniors Laura Wrighl and Susan Irwin decide which iob would be compafable for fhem. Marh 8 l