Lakewood High School - Cinema Yearbook (Lakewood, OH)

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-'Mathematics Department-'-'- -sffili wsi qv' 51,3 4, ,--xx, .A KG, I., . 'rl eil' 1-'M L...- Mr. Siggins, Mr. Bixler, Miss. Smith, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Gates, Mr. Garner The Mathematics Department of the modern high school represents an ex- pansion of one of the three R's, namely, arithmetic, a fundamental in the cur- riculum of all schools from the beginning of our nation. The family budget must keep Within the income. Business demands a profit. Savings need be provided for old age. Banking and insurance must be made safe. Skyscrapers and bridges, automo- biles and airplanes have to be construct- ed so as to stand stress and strain. All of these things involve quantitative judgment. Arithmetic, algebra, geome- try, trigonometry and higher mathe- matics offer the student the mental training and the necessary tools for solving problems involving quantity. As life becomes increasingly complex, and the machine age places more intricate and expensive implements at the service of man, the greater his need for accu- rate judging and mathematical compu- tations. Page 28

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Math Club hen man started to count on his fingers, the science of mathematics began. The Greeks lifted mathematics, the first of the sciences to reach for- mal development, into the field of abstract thinking. When man discovered that physical phenomena that can be expressed in a finite number are the clues to facts of great value and meaning, he laid the founda- tions for all the material sciences that depend on applied mathematics. For those of our students who plan to enter upon a career that has to do with applied mathematics, the Math Club has a strong appeal, for there he will find congenial company. Anyone, though, who enjoys mathematics, even if he is not a shark, will like this club, for the meetings are not all spent in working tricky problems. Speak- ers who talk on subjects related to math are features of some meetings. This club has its more frivolous meetings, too, where having a good time is the main problem under consideration. Hack- Davis Murslu-Ull. Gillam, lirmvn, VValxvr, Mills. Curmish, Schr n N4 lpn lllllllll. Hell, llllllllpf. Wallace. Mills. llark row ul' ss-nts Hills-r, Mzxuss, lfusve, Kassin. Sc-coml liemlvr, lim-nm-tt, Samll-rs. Willioms, Walzer, Mr. Siggins 'l'lxir1l linllmhurwlt, lfk'!1lt'll, Davies, Roblrins. Falls. Pflffz' .29