Barringer High School - Athenaeum Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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l.lo d Carrb Helen Cratto N inrent Cuarino

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Fraction Finders The wide range of courses offered by the Mathematics Department meets the needs 4 the terminal as 'sell as tlx col lege-lx mi nil student General Math I and II. General Math lit, and Senior Math, emphasize practical application Algebra I ami II. Geometry A and B. Advanced Algebra-Trigonometry provide students with the- opportunity to develop skill and ability in pmtiilalional reasoning, graphic representations of statistical data and mathematical expressions, inferential statistics ami scientific thinking. The exceptional students are selected to participate in the M AP. Mathematics for Advanced Placement, program The sequence is fallowed in the sophomore through the senior year, culminating in MAP V. differential and integral calculus Students m MAP 11 IV . studs analytic ami solid geometry. as well as advanced algebra In an attempt to up grade standards, the Barringer High School Mathematics l)e| artment has devised a Minimum Kssentiah Test which all juniors throughout tlx- city are required to pass lief ore thes can qualify as candidates for graduation Marion Alexander Frances By rne Gomrctta Barillari Kathleen l)r Palma

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Science is an attitude. a point of view, a way of approaching and solving prolilt-im. a means l which man attempts to satisfy the erasing to understand his world. It can lx- properly classed as one of the liberal arts, per-haps, even one of the humanities Itv met hods have been called upon in all areas of man s intellectual endeavors and itv effects are of Increasing import in almost all fields It has structure, a form and ImmiiIx. and i an he as evciting and as evhilaratmg as a painting, a poem or a musical composition In our modern world we are. perhaps, more aware of the fmit of science-technology , and are sometimes prone to equate these two The comforts of modern life are certainly pleasant, but lire excitement is in the science that made these comforts possible Since science » something one docs, all of the courses are structured around tin- laUxatory work, fix it is only in the lalmrators that truth can lx- demonstrated The major course offerings an- Physical Science in the ninth grade. Biology in the tenth grade. Electricity. Integrated Science I. and Physics in the eleventh grade, and Electronics. Integrated Science II. Chemistry- and Earth Science in the twelfth grade Within all of the major course offerings there is provision to adajg to tlx- needs, interests, and sophistication of the students with certain aspects designed to provide training and education in technology Joseph (irlinin Eleanor llankrrson Annie Grant Eileen Core Shirley Grundy Truth Trackers Morris H. Leraer, Chairman Eleanor E'abiano 28