Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MATH Breck’s Math program is one of the most up to date in the country, and it provides its students with excellent preparation for college math. Math begins in the Lower School with the Minnemast program for students from Kindergarten through fourth grade. This curriculum is a modern math program in which the students will be better prepared than before. Grades five and six use the SMSG materials. Mr. Hovland is the head of this program, which will expand to include the entire Lower School. Why. it’s intuitively obvious! In the Upper School, the classes are non-grad-ed and divided into Achievement levels. The first level stresses fundamentals as well as concepts: the second does advanced work in the courses: and the third or Quest level moves as rapidly as it can master the material. The courses offered include Algebra I and II. geometry. Advanced Placement Calculus, and computer programming. The school’s G-15 digital computer is used in the last course, as well as being an aid to student interest in math. Also, the 1604 computer at the University of Minnesota is used to teach Fortran Programming. The Math Department has a lot to offer. A student at Breck may obtain a comprehensive know-ledge of math, from the basics in Minnemast through college level courses such as calculus. 20

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SCIENCE Breck’s Science Department gives all of its students a firm grounding in the subjects that they will study later in college. Students in the seventh through ninth grades receive instruction in the basics of experimentation and data correlation. Starting in the seventh grade, students take a course in Earth Science followed by a course in the eighth grade in general science. In the ninth grade the teaching stafT combines to instruct them in the rudiments of experimentation in their Time, Space and Matter course. In the tenth grade, Mr. Nielsen teaches Biology. In the eleventh grade, students take Chemistry from Mr Marr. The twelfth grade studies Physics with Mr. Jacobson. Each of the science courses contain extensive laboratory work. Each student works on his own, or in small groups. They write up the data and attempt to correlate them and interpret the phenomena. Next year, new labs in the proposed Math-Science wing will improve the conditions and the courses. In the Science Department, a student is offered a variety of courses, and may find his interest taken by one or more of them. Thus, the student learns how to experiment, and finds out if one of science's multitudinous aspects interests him. 22