Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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Gayle Johnson finds that some math problems require not only a knowledge of math, but also common sense. Mike Kopp shows his skill in Trig. Debby Meares gets help from Mr. her seventh grade math class how Payne while she demonstrates to to use a number line. Reviewing returned tests helps students learn by their errors. 27

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Math courses range in complexity from arithmetic to trigonometry. Girls: Have you ever thought about being a housewife and buying groceries? Roys: Have you ever thought about guiding missiles through space? Well, while some of the math courses at BHS teach the math necessary for managing a house, others provide a gateway to the exciting science of space flight. Yes, students! All those dreaded trips to the black- board to explain your “version” of the problem provide the necessary concepts for future home use and future space flights. Class discussions and demonstrations used by teachers prove to the students why math works. These methods of teaching help students retain what they have learned. These classes are for one main purpose: to prepare you for the future. “Did you say ‘protractor’?” says Georgiana Davis in an incredulous tone. (After all what seventh grader ever heard of a “protractor” before!) Mrs. rown patiently explains what magic the little measuring tool can perform, so with time. Georgiana will become reconciled to both its name and its use. The compass—an essential tool for geometry students—is utilized by Charlotte Walls as she demonstrates to .lane Berry the technique of its use in a construction problem. Mrs. Wilkes watches as Barbara Martinez works an Algebra problem for the class. 26

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B.H.S. science classes snowball Science is snowballing — from the first scientific milestone (the invention of the wheel) to the latest (the many orbits of Gimini 6). This indomitable snowball, as prolific as a fruit fly, forms not one enormous mass called “science,” but an astronomical number of “sciences” called zoology, metallurgy, electronics, oceanography — to infinity! Just as this snowball gets constantly bigger and increasingly specialized, so does Baker High’s science department go from Louis Wilkinson wonders how electrolysis can separate water into two teases, hydrogen and oxygen. generalities to specifics. With three years’ background of “general science” (a bit of every—ology and —graphy) comes an understanding of our solar system, our earth, our flora and fauna, and ourselves. Onward to specificity—to dissection of frogs in biology, to diatomic molecules in chemistry, and finally to disintegration constants in physics. Science courses at Baker are among the most challenging, because the student learns by experimentation—proving to himself and for himself the laws of nature. Howard Chancy and Bruce Bcateau find that understanding the rotation of the earth on its axis and the subsequent change from day to night is not hard, when its is demonstrated. As part of her Science Fair Exhibit, De De Pugh demonstrates how a submarine floats, while her Looking at microscopic organisms with a micro-projector gives classmates watch. biology students a more complete understanding of microbes. 28