Jefferson High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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MATHEMATICS BARBARA F. BURTON DEPARTMENT M.Ed, Universty! of: North CoP Department Chairman Pythagoras and company still belong, but the club is larger now This year, the Math Dept. gave courses appropriate for the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th graders comprising its students. Nowadays 8th grade math covers arithmetic through the real number system; an introduction to algebra through the solving of simple equations and in- equalities; and a very good intuitive grounding in the basic ideas of geometry, including some work with solid figures. Our program is sufficiently flexible to allow us to offer any course at the time when the student is mature enough and prepared to take it. The normal high school curriculum offers Algebra | in the 9th grade, Geometry for 10th graders, and Algebra I| Trigonometry for 11th graders. Next year as our students move up into a proper high school pattern, courses for 9th through 12th grades will include an option for 11th graders (according to their abilities and intended college program) between Algebra || only, or the more intensive Algebra II Trigonometry. Added for 12th graders will be a course in Analysis; some seniors may choose the Func- tions and Matrices course given this year to accelerated juniors. All math is taught in the contemporary context now widely used throughout the country. Our math is as ‘‘modern’’ as any, but parents still troubled by occasional bits of unfamiliar terminology now used may be assured that underneath, it’s all pretty much the same. The math they learned is still valid, but more has been added, and a new, more precise way of talking about mathematical ideas has been adopted. usheus Oa Ade et SHUM ur yo4 Riv! Ti c © — = m 2 pa x x Amn}; 9R04N943 4Od SLUR INH wares 4o(py Furry Ss Ee Keys to a kingdom, if you like such things. And by the S.A.S. Postulate... Easy lies the crown that rests on this departmental head. 28

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SCENIC DEPARTMENT The Science Department endeavors to give students an under- standing and appreciation of man’s well-developed knowledge of the sciences. The laboratories, which are furnished with the most up-to-date equipment, are the centers of each of the science ‘ courses, An increasing amount of stress is placed on ‘‘reasoning’”’ in each of the classes. This year students were fortunate in being able to visit a planetarium and to study the structure of an ecologi- cal community first-hand. MARTIN S. CHRISTIE B.A., George Washington University Department Chairman x ae aare ss va eaN = aan