Central High School - Wakitan Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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- In an attempt to solve a trigonometry problem, Tim Taylor and Hilton Sander employ the use of a graphing board. Tim Ashworth finds the solitude of the Central halls, during classes, a welcome place to make up a mathematics test. Using a blackboard compass in geometry class, Junior Virginia Purvis tries to determine a circle's circumference. Rhonda Ditn course for rev l Mathematical world preset Cool, precise, obvious, if you know the answer. This is the way it stands in the mathematical world of Central High School. It's a world without emotionsg the answers are already calculated before you discover the solu- tions. Math presents cold facts and figures, but it is not so mechanical that it's lacking in crea- tivity at Central. Probably nothing is as precise as a mathe- matical equation. It cannot be half rightg it has to be one-hundred per cent right. If less, it is wrong. So it is with the decisions of life. Your decisions will either be of benefit to you or handicap you, all depending on whether or not they were right. Math is really not as complex as one might think. There is a procedure in finding every solution tc to learn is find he soc that their So ag illustrated to the liv School. Tl with Gene plete cour Centralite: into creati precision . minds: to 1

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gain tsis Shakespeare. ne importance the pendulum ithin the cur- l the natural fain becoming blish a secure reate an indi- maintain this hen men real- :ed with what history when takei a better iecure a better tg technique used as in U.S. History. While contemplating on the possibility of a future world gov- ernment, Keith Long studies the vastness of the earth in f miniature scale during his World History class. Pam Morehead leads a group discussion in Mr. Roger Grun- wald's psychology class on the barriers confronted by man. Mr. Burton Dunbar explains to Sherry Bechtold the handicap of man in adjusting to his various roles in his society. ' Seniors, Dean Ellis, Sherry Jackson, Sally Ness display the flags ofthe countries belongingtothe United Nations. 4? lm 1'-E7

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if.a5A.p.1,,..'..'.f,'.fL.., .Lf Q., Z3 : Vunior Virginia .1 i Barry Reynolds, Steve Cole, Melvin Gehrs, and Byron Katcher use study hall to finish mathematics assignments. Rhonda Ditmars finds General Math an excellent refresher course for reviewing the fundamentals of mathematics. world presents challenges the answer. athematical answers are r the solu- igures, but ,ng in crea- s a mathe- lit, it has to it iswrong. r decisions cap you, all ere right. one might ing every solution to every problem. The thing, a person has to learn isthe pattern of the procedure, and he will find he soon has the solution. Centralites wish only that their lives fitted in such a clear-cut pattern. So again the analogy of math and life is illustrated. This applies in even greater intensity to the lives of math students at Central High School. They can start their- four years of math with General Math or Algebra I and end a com- plete course with Calculus and Math Analysis. Centralites strive to take the coldness and turn it into creative thinking and reasoningg to take the precision and let it challenge their calculative minds, to take the obvious and prove it just that. In setting up a proof for an algebra problem, Diana Green and Becky Pfander learn the method of deductive reasoning. Junior Galen Herring demonstrates the advantages of the slide rule in solving problems in his Algebra II class.