Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Aiming toward skill in mathematical operations, Miss Caryle Feddeler presents a math puzzle to her eighth grade class. Mathematicians find 20 courses to perplex them ■ Challenging minds were 20 re- quired and elective math courses. General math offered just that, concentrating on finance problems. Algebra brought graphs, unknown X’s and Y’s to college prep students. Aristotles went on to geometry, studying angles and polygons, prov- ing unknowns deductively. Branching to advanced algebra meant logarithms and slide rule, so handy in scientific calculations. Reaching a mathematical peak were senior courses of trigonometry and Geometry 1 1 1 for math majors. UISCM reached a third year for advanced students, but the math pyramid’s base was junior high ' s decimals, problems, basic operations. Opaque projectors and a three- foot slide rule modernized classes Putting theorems to work in problem solv- ing is Debbie Wojciehowski as Sandy Wilson examines a collection of geometric figures.

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Clarifying aspects of a UICSM algebra problem, instructor Mr. Lee Mann confers with sophomores Gerry Nagdeman and Ray Kasenga. Armed with clean test tube and Bunsen burner, Chemistry VII stu- dent Steven White prepares for an oxygen production experiment. Experimenting with force measurement, students in Physics V attempt to understand scientifically the secrets of nature.

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Current events, films, aid social studies students Consumer Report, Dow-Jones ' average and form the basis of Economics VIII, help sen- pamphlets on consumer buying power, which iors understand fluctuations in U.S. economy. ■ Current events, movies, speakers aided all social studies classes as seniors finished three years of such study by entering a world of cam- paign slogans, party platforms and political duties in Government VII. National debt and budget prob- lems faced economics seniors, who made scrapbooks to show findings. Seeing the before and after of world events was aided by movies and museum trips. World War II study meant bringing war relics. Junior high history promoted his- toric novels, biographies, while civics classes began a hoped-for tradition of touring local court, city halls and studying voting machines. Geographical points of interest capture Rich Rogala ' s attention as he studies a world map. Documents — from the Declaration of Inde- Sara Solon, to the Test-Ban Treaty — are dis - pendences being studied by Randy Clad and cussed by junior high students in history. 27