Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MR JOHN NELSON B.A. Carlcton. M.A. University of Minnesota Upper School Malh

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MR RICHARD YONKBR B.S, University of Wisconsin E.D.M. Harvard University Eighth and Ninth SMSG, Calculu i An informal meeting of the Math Department. MATHEMATICS The School Mathematics Study Group Math program at Brcck is moving along as planned. This year the SMSG materials were used in the 4th through 9th grades: next year they will lx used in the 4th through 10th grades. Brock’s Math Department will be entirely converted to a modem curriculum by 1965. Cuisenaire rods are used with younger children as a concrete example to explain abstract principles in mathematics. Introduced to the 1st grade this year, they will be used through die 3rd grade next year. Besides the SMSG in the 4th through 12th grades. Advanced Placement Calculus taught by Mr. Yonker is being planned to replace the present half year of Calculus. There are plans to have a course in “Computer Arithmetic” within two years. It is a reasonable expectation that a computer laboratory will be included in the proposed Math and Science Building. 18

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MR. RONALD MARR B.S..M.A. John Hopkins University Physics and Chemistry SCIENCE The'Chemical Education Materials Study program, known as CHEM Study, is the most recent addition to the Science curriculum at Breck School. The entire Junior class was involved in the new program during the 63-64 school year. CHEM Study originated at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, and the University of California at Berkeley with Glenn Seaborg acting as Chairman. During the past three years the program was enriched and tested by trial schools. 1963-64 was the first year with the hard-bound text edited by George Pimentel. The course differs from the traditional course in many ways but especially in the experimental work; the text title An Experimental Science is designed with this approach in mind. The classes have enjoyed the unusual and new. sophisticated experiments they have done. 'Ilic Senior Physics class continues to work with the Physical Science Study Committee material, known as PSSC. Present planning for the future in Science at Breck includes evaluating and testing of the Biological Science Curriculum Study, to be known as BSCS, with the hope of eventually adding this appropriate course to the Science program. Nielsen lectures. 20