St Ladislaus High School - Torch Yearbook (Hamtramck, MI)

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Math Made Us Think, Analyze The mathematics program presented us with rewarding opportunities to develop our analytical thinking. We met our first challenge in Algebra I. During that year we were constantly drilled until we absorbed the fundamental principles. We also studied such operations as factoring and solving equations. With these principles rooted deeply in our minds, we proceeded to Algebra II. In this course, we met logarithms which proved an obstacle to many of us. We also studied problems dealing with linear and quadratic functions and their graphs. Next came a subject which every math student enjoyed, Plane Geometry. Instead of numbers, we used points, lines, arcs and circles in our problems. And will we ever forget the Pythagorean theorem which each of us had to explain individually at the blackboard? Utilizing the principles of Plane Geometry, we swung head on into Solid Geometry. We found it more complicated but more interesting. Work- ing with volumes and surface areas of geometric figures, such as tetrahedrons, pyramids, cones, parallelepipeds and spheres was a great challenge to most of us. Thirteen of us were daring enough to tackle Trigonom- etry. We were taught trigonometric functions and studied their general properties, graphs and relationships. This course ran one semester, followed by a second semester of modern mathematics. In the latter we learned new concepts of math and were introduced to such items as sets, unions, determinants and boolean algebra. SLIDE RULE OPERATORS made speedy calculations. Gerald Davis and Practice built facility in multiplying, dividing, squaring, cubing and extract- Marlene Kolodziepczyk tried a problem in multiplication on the model ing square and cube root, instrument while Dorothy Kosnik verified their findings on a regular one. 18

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NEW TYPE SHUTTERBUGS, Health students, disassembled the human camera, the NO HELL-BROTH was brewed here, but the water eye. Curious to determine the cause of eye diseases. Seniors Arthur Gdula, boiled and bubbled as Junior George Wilkins Eileen Banaszewski, Carole Kolcz and Richard Kwiatkowski investigated the applied heat to speed the process of distillation. structure of the eye and its operation.

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Mathematics COMPLEX FRACTIONS preoccupied Advanced Algebra students, Gerald Frederick and Jacqueline Fedak. While Gerald worked the problem on the board, Jacqueline observed and checked it agoinst the text. ON CONSTRUCTING A FIGURE for a geo- metric theorem, Arthur Pieper paused for further directions from John Babiarz, and Geraldine Gadzinski EXPLAINING A DIVISION PROBLEM in Algebra I, Kenneth Burzynski stopped to verify the last part of the solution as Patricia Combs, Gregory Gargulenski and Carol Rosochacki inspected the work. PERSONAL CASH ACCOUNTS will prove valuable in maintaining a budget; there- fore, Geraldine Witkowski, Sophie Konc- zak and Cynthia Kolodziejczyk learned the technique during General Math. 19