Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Reasoning is learning As soon is school opens the new juniors tackle algcbrt Il After 1 quick review ot bisic aluebri more complex formulas and ideas are explored Lol trithms ind slide rules become the student s Bibles when the answers to viriations permutations ind story prob lems are to be found The Pythaforean Theorem and right angle are the tools of trifonometrv and sines cosines tangents and cot ingents are the principal words of trig language This course is desi ned primarily for the college bound m ith majoring student who is interested in en gineermg or related fields A semester of college algebra completes the semor year is well as rounding out the math curriculum Basic and intermediate algebra are reviewed before the student begins advanced work with determin ints mat in place of the Iirst part of some college mith courses Although the math program seems to be richly complete plans have been laid for the inclusion of more courses A program beginning in the eighth grade places advanced students in algebrt I pushing the present program ahead a year This le tves room in the senior year for courses in calculus So its true' exclaim wide eyed geometry students Every thine meets in the center of proportional polygons' Kathy Schmidt Christine Roehring George Aspbury and Bob Appel examine last years project while Alan Tandrup and Gail Hobbs study problems AT1me is of prime importance when taking a test and it becomes doubly valuable when trying to complete drawings as well as prove theorems Francie Quillian finds that by doing the drawings first with her straight edge and crayon the method of solving the problems becomes clear almost imme diately Q -Q'9.f C I C 'ja . z ' Q 'M 1, r ' ' .. ' J . gt ' L so ' B 5, ,A 'X .. ' :yas V 3 , k , - ,L ', ' .Q , ' -, Z . - Y 1 r l ' 'S ,- A' s l I ' , s z g 5 ' ' 'Y - . .Q up .2 . . - , Q - 1. . D w . . Q . - 1 lf ' . ' D . . . . 2 , - rices. and mathematical induction. This may be taken ' . V z . 7 . ' ' ' z , 5 ' A . v - Q ' rf x gi xy Y . I Al . n . , , t f ' X A .05 33

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Math program emphasizes Ioglc sound fhlnklng Harold VanDragt Ruth Bnggs Donald Vratanma Q5 E A Hubbard Charles Thumser John Klsh Although most of trlgonometry mstructlon IS illustrated by workmg the formulas out on the blackboard Mr Thumser has made use of a more portable chart showmg the function of angles ln each quadrant Grlflith Dlck Al Bauman and .hm Allc llsten mtently The trend rn mathematlcs hts turned away from just the memonzanon of set formulas to the reasoning out of a problems solutlon The student IS gnven thought provoking questxons whlch wlll call upon hlS entlre mathematlcs background m order to solve them Emphasls IS placed on the practlcal appllcatlon of baslc ldeas reasoned mtellxgently and loglcally Followmg these guldellnes, Seaholms mathematlcs department IS far ahead of the average hrgh school Honors and accelerated courses are offered for the advanced student whrle the elementary courses of algebra I and geometry fulf1ll the needs of the non math majors Ones career rn mathemancs begms 1n the nmth grade, where, m algebra I the relatxon of operatlons wlth the substltutlon of unknown numbers IS studled mear equatlons fracuons and exponents are also mcluded to challenge the novlce mathematrcxan In geometry all the fundamentals of algebra are not dlscarded but applled 1n such a way that the bas1cs of plane geometry are more easlly learned The pass to any geometry class IS a stralght edge, compass, protractor and a good supply of sharp penclls These tools are then quickly put to use maklng drawmgs whlch lllustrate the relatlon between pomts, l1nes and angles as they are used rn provmg theorems Honors geometry IS an acceleratlon of plane geometry, and 1n cludes a un1t of solrd geometry durmg the year ,Q IXTQX av-Utd I 0 0 I I ' ' 2 1 , . . . Q i I . . . - . x , N ,, . . . , . 3 3 Lt 97 ' ' ' ' ' 7 A f I . - . l N ' L , , . gh, 7 ifqf I ' ' ' '16, . .. : 9 I ...dr .E - , . ! - . - l - . . . , , . L l . - . 1 . . . 5 . . f ' c L ,W gk W ,we ,,,l ll. my V i a' P K v A , GW: K I A V' xt X 'Y 1 f , A I 1. X . ' ' s .-- ' ' t I N N X XX.. K lv W A I M M. x t A V, f l - V fa! ' A 32

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Hlstory of world unfolds Fl I Jay Myers George Mrller Robert Rlchards 419- Wulf Arthur DelVero Carol Chalmers Carl Lemle As soon as l R students get to class there rs a mad rush for the Clzrzstzan Sueme Momtor as each person rs responsxble for any current news about a country or group of countrles Marlon Gmman Lynn Draper Barb Koch and Whitney Walker peruse copres of thrs famous yournal if? before students eyes It IS hard to belreve todays complex socrety de veloped from the Caveman s savage c1v1l1zat1on but ln our hrstory courses th1s startlmg parade of progress unfolds almost before our very eyes enablmg us to trace th1s movement through the centurles Our studles begm m the past so obscured by trme that we can only make educated guesses about the llfe of prehrstorlc days Gradually however the ve1l of darkness IS swept asnde so we may explore the earhest recorded hlstorres From the Ferule Cresent to Rome s mxghty emplre to the lands of the Renars sance Reformatlon and the Industrlal Revolutron we see the world Grow Although much ttme IS spent rn the past we do not neglect the present and events up to formatnon of the Umted Natlons are covered all thrs and more 1n world hrstory Our Jumor year rs filled wrth dtscovery settlement, and development of the Umted States as well as xts role 1n the world today As the year H165 on we are lntroduced to the Constrtutxon and more fully realrze for what our natlon stands Havmg learned the hrstorlcal facts we move on to underlymg reasons, dlscussmg why certaln rules are made pohcxes are followed, and trends accepted Mildred McKeen Howard Clayton as 4 W -. Donald Grothe Merrrll Maller ' I .eu ' ' , ' . ' I qv Q K' . . . , Q 6 . . Q ., Q , . . . , 1- 'fy ' . Q 1 . l 5 . 4 . . .1 -4 I.. l . A. 3, h ' -1 I Y ' 4 .. . .. , - 4 . ' ' . . ' . ' ' . v , M Z x - 1 A , My if X 1-v f I ' I? ,. A All O . y r.. t 45, 7 . . .J . Q A 4 34