Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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4 Lining up at the computer and comparing results, students help each other find the answers in Mr. Packwood's Computer Math class. tl ii fwrh . r-fe - Qfxu- iw . I ,,y.',x.,',.--, Precision and Logic ith only two years required, and neither year specified, math had a smaller population than almost any other subject, Most students took their requirements in the easiest way possible. Introductory Algebra and Fundamentals of Mathematics classes always made it over the class cuts and were offered every quarter. First year Algebra and Geometry were filled, too, and in these courses, students were able to go a little more deeply into the subject. ln Mrs. AIexander's Geometry classes, Melinda Williams and Rudy Garza worked designs employing angles and lines as outside projects. April Smith made stained glass windows trom optical illusion tigures. The FOM classes worked with calculators once a week, and Mr. Packwood's MOCE class used programmable calculators. They were trying to prove, as Mr. Packwood said, You can have fun with mathematics, You dont have to be a superbrain to do math. Some students discovered that they not only had the aptitude tor math, but that they also enjoyed it. For these, there were more spe- cialized courses like Computer Math in both Basic and Fortran lan- guages. In Mr. Packwood's computer class, James Davis, Janet Hutchison, Phil Peterson, Debra Rodgers, Sandy Slavins, Karen Walker and Ftonald Wright each played a specific part and acted out the workings of a computer. Calculus classes were usually active, and Trigonometry classes traded sarcastic witticisms with Mrs. Teel and Mr. Taylor. Lucky members of Mr. TayIor's classes joylully celebrated the birthdays of Attila the Hun and Adolt Hitler, not to mention the St. VaIentine's Day Massacre, with bloody festivities of their own. The advanced math classes were small, but intense and fairly dedicated to learning as much as they could. The little things in math could be extremely frustrating, like when you begged Mrs. Teel to explain where 2b2fa came from and her lightning-quick hand zoomed along without pause. Or when you were only telling your neighbor that yes, Mr. Taylor was cruel and inhumane, and he heaved an eraser at you, right on target! But in suffering through these little idiosyncrasies, we acquired a lot of knowledge we could take with us and really use later on. We could apply the precision of a geometric proof, and the reason- ing behind it, to thinking in our day-to-day lives. Vile could make change with frightening accuracy. Mr. Packwood said, Math is a subject we'll all use in lite, one we often use without realizing it, Mr. Taylor added that Mathematics deals with ultimate precision. You learn a thinking process of logical reasoning. And Galileo said, lt fthe universej is written in the Language of mathematics. math 101

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4 Flae Ellis, Sharon Blincoe, Michelle Loflin, and Lane Perry measure the weight of the graduated cylinder in order to weigh liquids in Introduction to Physical Science. We got the basics in Introduction to Physical Science to help us in later specialized physical science and biology classes. we ...mf dv'-f v ua- 4' '3Q'54-'iaf' -A X Y, MP5-rltl. ,yeii , ii.. . . X K To Examine Qur World xamining the things around us and experimenting to observe processes was what Lanier's science was all about. From analyzing the grass in our backyard, conjuring up a batch of lipstick, or constructing an atom, to learning how our body functions, science taught us to look beyond what we already knew and to question what was taken for granted. Variety played an important part in structuring our freshman and sophomore science program. Specialized classes like Sound and Light and Household Chemistry taught us how to make cameras out of shoeboxes and mix our own cold cream, expos- ing us to the complexity of the simple things ol lite. Switching the previous requirement of one year to two, sopho- mores fit biology classes like Diversity of Plants and Animals ,id The Study ot the Human System into their schedules. We dissected worms and frogs, studied flowers under microscopes, and raised our own plants in a garden in the little courtyard. Those planning to take chemistry took Atoms and Molecules and Microbiology to get basics in chemical bonds, formulas and reactions, Basic health courses, required to graduate, had variety within the courses. We learned about health centers in our community and the jobs available. Mental disorders, viruses, communicable diseases and their symptoms were memorized. Coach Masch's memoriza- tion techniques aided his students in learning the fundamentals. With a test every day they remembered the necessary information through repetition, Different teachers taught in their own ways stressing different things. Coach l-locker had his classes keep track of what they ate, then evaluated the nutritional contents. We began to see the world around us in a different light and applied what we learned to every day life. We read ingredients labels, knowing what substances would be the most nutritional. We knew now why things happened and could explain things better, with more accuracy, Science gave us a head start on the unknown. We knew there was a cause behind every effect. ,, -A x science 103