Canton High School - Backtrackin Yearbook (Canton, SD)

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 Mathematics Courses Implement Computers; Students Place Fourth In State Test n the area of math- ematics, Mr. Ekle, Mr. Gross, and Mr. Ver- steeg feel that courses prepare stu- dents for college, the job market, and orga- nizational skill in life in general. Stu- dents in many of the classes spend much time on the computers; com- puter classes themselves are under the category of math. In calculus, students used a computer program to illustrate integration; in advanced math (trigonometry), students used a computer program to develop graphs for extra credit material. The students in Calculus I and II, Steve Spieker and David Roadarmer, earned advanced placement credit for college. All students in advanced math. Algebra II, and a few in geom- etry took the American Math Exami- ] nation and placed fourth in the state; math students across the na- tion took the test. ALGEBRA I STUDENTS ANDY HOHMAN. KRISTI LUNDER. David Mettler, Risty Plucker. and Brian Anderson concentrate on Mr. Ekle's explanation of monomial factoring. TAKING ALGEBRA II AS SENIORS. TAMMY KAMPEN AND Keith Hemmingson listen to the discussion of the day's assignment 22 Math

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' ; ■ ; 1 ; 1 i 1 i 1 ; j- SHARPENING HIS AIRBRUSH SKILLS. ART III student Brian Nichols works on a class assignment on illustration. DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING HER OWN PIN AT A. Joleen Fmstad participates in a project for Spanish class. TAKING AN ACCURATE READING IN CHEMISTRY CLASS is S Summey records the data assignment eve Renli; Serena to complete the

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MEASURING AN AMOUNT OF CHEMICAL, CARRIE Carlson and Nikki Englert perform a laboratory experiment lor chemistry class. WORKING ON A COMPUTER ASSIGN- MENT, TOREY JACOBS takes advantage ot the school's resources. Physics Class Competes In Egg Drop, Physics Bowl ffered every other year, the advanced i.v. . which i B I taught by Mr Herting IB-B J took field trips to sup- plement classwork. and the physics class which is taught by Mr. Rinken par- ticipated in an egg drop and the physics bowl. Traveling to Sioux Falls, the advanced biology class visited the Great Plains Zoo; the class also went to the Federal fish hatchery in Yankton and identified trees at Union State Park. Collect- ing different types of aquatic life, they dragged a net through Sciene Creek. Class projects included labs on bacteria and dissection. Placing sixth, physics students were in- volved in the annual physics bowl which was held on the campus of SDSU in Brookings during April. Competing against the Art II and Art IV classes, the physics class spon- sored the egg drop where students built a structure of drinking straws and masking tape which would sup- port an uncooked egg dropped from the top of the school. The physics class once again won the egg-drop contest by a two-percent margin with 69 % of their structures safely landing eggs on the ground. Other science courses offered in- clude chemical and physical labora- tory classes. science 23