Bishop McGuinness High School - Chi Rho Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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5 i + y : math at McGuinness. The freshmen undertook a big project this year-math! Highschool math is to them a realm of new and different ideas, figures, and concepts. Algebra I presents a true challenge to the new high schooler. Next comes the fascinating study of geometry with its students mystified by theorems, triangles, and polygons. The primary concern of this course is to teach the students to think in a logical manner. The juniors were subjects to Algebra II, an extension of Algebra I. This course penetrates the whys of the first year algebra and goes into the sphere of ad- vanced study, such as equations, graphs, and methods. A fourth year math pupil finds his study devoted to two major areas-trig- onometry and solid geometry. In the trig classes students worked with'sine, cosine, tangents, and their reciprocals. Solid geo- metry delved into the why of reality. Mathematicians Kay Lucas and Bob Minnis seem to have stumped Sister Pauline with a tricky trig problem. But surely Sister will figure it out as her amused senior math class looks on Massad in the' solving of a tough Algebra I equation

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Math Challenges MHS Minds ' hiW Mr. Gavula pleasingly smiles on his latest geometrical figures. Kathy Tobin, Marilyn Meidrech, and Gary MeClendon get some additional help from Sr. Miriam Teresa, Math I instructor. I8 Denise Touhy and SuSu McGinnis, sophomore their solution in Sr. PauIine's geometry class

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Elaint Bachle and Mary Borelli carefully adjust the luminous flame of the Bunsen burner while Betty Fisher cautiously anticipates the outcome. Scientific Studies Intrigue Students -fe' Mr. Lochhead's static electricity generator brings forth comment and laughter from Frank McMann, Tony Bosworth, .lim Kulziak, Kay Lucas, and Harold Scheer, some eccentric eggheads talking physics. ' 2 0 i l ny strange-looking bug wandering a- round the halls this year usually had a biology student on its tail. The biology classes taught by Mr. Piccolo and Mr. Lochhead did not follow the book strictly but rather they studied subjects in relation to each other. During the course the students performed a few experiments such as the dissection of frogs and worms. At the beginning of the year the chemistry students were sufficiently incapacitated with the complexities of such oddities as Bunsen burners, graduate cylinders, thistle tubes, etc. Gradually, however, the chemistry teacher, Sis- ter Willireda, Ad.PP.S.. taught the students to work efficiently with the elements which com- pose our world and to discover the truths concerning the Law of Conservation of Mass. Mr. Lochheads physics classes studied a new approach to the subject this year. The students were given experimental data from which they were asked to determine different physicists theories. Physical science was a new subject offered at Mcfiuinness this year by Mr. Lochhead. This course dealt primarily with the composition of the C.lfll1.S crust, different minerals and crystals, and certain astronomical situations,