Howell High School - Torch Yearbook (Howell, MI)

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MAKES BASIC COURSES IN ARITHMETIC ALGEBRA: If , - .lily ,4- Freshmen 1n Mrs Blacks algebra class get the1r f1rst taste of advanced mathematxcs It s qulte a shock to most of them at flrst, but gradually they all get used to It A-lw Or was xt vx:A1 Samuel Davxs appears to be havmg dlffxculty remembermg M Herbst stands as1de to let hun flgure It out for hlmself Bxsectmg an angle 15 a c1nch says Mr DeVmney to T1m I-lamtlton m e1ghth grade math class Students 1n th1s class also leam how to b1sect and construct 11ne segments as well as leammg some of the other fundamentals of geometry 11 ff o ' I 4 f , . . . 31 3 i U Q 6 .. -Nw? NM-s'? 'QA... -M A-, , W V .,, VF V A ! . . . . ' , I Q z ,1 , . f , 3,4 1 , I . . . . I 7 , fl 'ig fa, f E Qi ' . t 5? iiiili' '- f 1 , 2' ,J E X 2452. kj' ,, ' . . . . . L

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ADDED EMPHASIS ON ADVANCED MATH Mr Schoenelch leads h1s advanced algebra class m a d1SCl1SS101'l on the development of the Base 10 number system The three dunensxonal projects that so11d geometry students constructed pmvxde Mr Schoenelch Wldl a source of amusement as well as mformatlon Howell's advanced mathematlcs cur r1culum has undergone a change th1s year Instead of bexng offered one sem ester of tmgonometry and one semester of advanced algebra students are glven a whole year of advanced algebra They then take a comblned course 1n trlgo nometry and sohd geometry the follow 1ng year Thls plan 1S especlally bene f1c1al to those students enterlng techn1 cal schools that reqmre two years of h1gher mathematlcs Freshmen get the1r taste of advanced problems through the elementary alge all of 1tS a.x1oms and theorems Sopho mores 1n plane geometry learn to prove theorems and to reason the solut1ons to a problem Advanced algebra students study everythlng from bas1c algebra to analyt 1ca1 geometry They learn how to graph quadrat1c equat1ons how to work w1th d1fferent number systems and how to deal wxth sets and funct1ons Sol1d geometry students have to learn to v1ew mathemat1cs 1n a d1fferent per spectlve They have to learn to see f1gures 1n a book as they would look 1n three d1mens1on Thxs year the students made three dlmensxonal prolects each one representxng a d1fferent theorem , Q . . . ,uf , Q X X ' ' .t Xp , x - A A A f' 9 bra course which acquaints them with 7 I I . . U :gig X My I . ' . x lg .5 k . -

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