Chicago Jewish Academy - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MEIVIOIRS 7'2 SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT The SocIal StudIes program at the Academy consIsts of year courses In AmerIcan HIstory and World HIstory and semester courses In JewIsh HIstory Amer Ican Government and EconomIcs In the JunIor HIgh School department year courses In AmerIcan HISIOYY and Geography are offered AmerIcan HIstory traces the development of the UnIted States from the perIod of dlscovery to the present contrIbutIng a valuable understandnng of the events the persons and the Issues Involved World HIstory enlarges the horIzon It relates the story of our country to the hIstory of the rest of the world and QIVES a com prehensIve vIew of the OTIQIU the spread of cIvIIIzatIon and the Interdependence of peoples JewIsh HIstory offers a detaIled study of the JewIsh people from the perIod of the destructIon of the Second Temple t modern tImes, IncIudIng the establIshment of the State of Israel WhIle the course In JewIsh HIstorv stresses our peoples hlstory each of the other courses attempts to Integrate the story of world development wIth the JewIsh past AmerIcan Government analyzes the struc ture and operatIon of the government, stresses publIc ISSUES and problems, and emphaslzes the role of the Cllllen In a democracy Economncs treats the prIncIples of economIcs and the processes Involved In earnIng a lIvelIhood and satIsfyIng human wants The entlre program IS desIgned to make the student more fitted to help shape the present problems, and course of the future The aIm of the SocIal StudIes depart ment IS To know more of the past, to understand more of the present and thus be eqUIpped for the future JEWISH HISTORY A relatuvely new mem ber to the SocIal StudIes department IS the class In .lewlsh HIstory The need for such a class was reaIIzed three years ago The students truly ap precnate thIs course SINCE It CONTINUES wIth the story of our people from the perIod usually reached In the mornIng classes, to our very own days ID cIudIng the foundmg of the State of Israel Thirty eIght . I7 T J 4 T 1 n v a I ' . 1 I ' ' . , - ' I s 4 u Q I . . . . . , . , I , . . . I ' - more conscious of the past, more able to understand f . . . ,, . . 0 , ,, , . , . I .. IK! 1 IP X I I ' K fill' 'I 4' Q I fl K 'N' 'P ,

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MEMOIRS 112 MATH EMATICS DEPARTM ENT Todays acceptance of cyclotrons betatrons and hugh speed electromc calculators as common tools makes a knowledge of mathematlcs a must for every mature cutuzen How do the electromc calculators work? we may ask Our experuence wlth geometry tells us that they must functuon through loglcal reasonmg Certannly the theo rems of plane geometry are as mechamcal as the com putmg machnnes If the rnght hypotheses are proposed the correct concluslons are a certalnty But the study f plane geometry ns not mechamcal for the student of geometry must make the chance of the many hypotheses ava 'xble The calculator on the other hand can make no .Jch choice lt must accept whatever hypothesns ut ns gn n by the person operatnng ut Hence ut lS a machune whsle the student of plane geometry as not means of a code Its language us that of the actnvnty of the fraduo typej vacuum tube on and oFf Hence cam blnatlons of these two possnbllatues for thousands of tubes must be made to mean all of the symbols of mathematics But anyone who studues polynomials In algebra knows that all clecnmals for example can be written equally well an the bmary system of numbers where only two symbols Q0 for off and I for on D are used We have seen that the snmplest understandmg of tnese modern tools requures an understanding of algebra and geometrv But what are the fruats of such mach1nes7 we may ask One sugmflcant contrlbutuon accomplushed by means of the electromc calculator as a set of trngono metruc tables accurate to enghteen decimal places Such accuracy was prevuously lmpratlcal but subsequently found necessary Although the sane and coslne laws are stull of value to the bunlder of bndges they are of greater use to the research scnentnst The progress of tomorrow as measured by the dnl: the Academy offers nts students a complete program ln hugh school mathematics The algebra the geometry the tngonometry students ascertam our destnny through their scholarly mastery of Mathematucs, the Queen of Scnences GEOMETRY The teacher nn thus pncture dnsplaynng one of the phenomenal constructnons mherent nn the geo metry course The oblect cuboud or tesseract a four dtmen sxonal cube lt has snxteen vertnces thurty two edges and twenty four faces Most unusual of Its charact r ustncs IS the agreement that all four lanes whnch meet at a pomt are mutually perpenducular Slnce thus cannot be realized ln our famlllar space of three dlmenslons this re latnonshup must be portrayed by perspectnve To understand such a tngure and see at nn the mmds eye betters ones knowledge of conventnonal salad geometry Iii Thirty seven TW 1 J T ' ' ll ll ll ll l o - q - l T . I I i O i . ' . . . - The high speed electronic calculator operates by gence of the students of today. To insure this progress l . Z Q - . . I I I . . . is . ' is a . . ' .. A

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MEMOIRS 11131127 U. S. HISTORY ln thus age when problems of rlslng prtces labor strikes and the fectmg all our llves It ts essentially Important that the youth should learn txe basis of our economlc sys em In th sc we of the co nom cs class a stud rt ns reportmg on the Stock Market prlces Among t1e actuvlt es planned for the class 1 a vnsut to the Chncago Board of Trade where the actual process of marketmg commodutues may be observed and studied The sub lects of producton prices labor aovernment control are taken up and a firm understandmg of Eco nomncs as gauned whnch wll be of great benefit to the cutlzens of tomorrow ECONOMICS What happened to the teacher? lt seems from tus picture that th stud 'tt have overthrown the monarch and are setttng Lp a de mocratuc system of schoolnng But such IS not the case The students seated at th desk are merely conducting a panel discussion an orderly tashuon and wth the help of maps and charts are expound Ing some of thelr wnsdom on the sublect ct American Hlstory A better understandmg of our nation 1 dernved from thus course be n... Thirty nme if : . . I Q 'ij te el 5 r I . . I - ' Q . I E ' 7 11 - y t h . . . ,, ,Ami , .S . . g , I K, A-5--,V W .. . I I A s.-,-.. value lless lot the dollar are af- U,M,,tm,,,-.W I A A t . fs e. . E - . f - , e . ' ' ' . I . . Q, , . . . . z , f .3 . . . I I i ' 1 , ' , , ' if I l . ' I a n n q . rx? I Q , V X ' . . gxx X