Loudoun County High School - Lord Loudoun Yearbook (Leesburg, VA)

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Members of the Mathematics Department gather in the foyer. They are left to right, Mrs. Patton, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Shipp, Admiral Dudley, and Mrs. Diedrich. He gave me an F. He gave me an F. Why did he give me an F? thinks Carroll Howard in his solid geometry class. Mark Crowley explains a math problem he has just solved on the board. Rick King eagerly works in a new math book he has found: First Grade Arithmetic. 3I

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New math added to curriculum 2 ' ' . S K Therefore, it is obvious that 5 is equal to 1 . . says Lynn Aikens as she tackles a math problem. 30 1101, of 10 is what? thinks Mary Ellen Havener, while Jody Kincaid and Nesbit Hatch try to stay awake. 10-I-5:37 Has the math department gone mad? Not really. That equation is only a simple problem in modulus arithmetic. Modulus arithmetic is only one face of a revolutionary new mathematics that has been sweeping the field of education. Loudoun County High has not been neglected. In the words, of one math teacher, this progressive trend puts the new emphasis on reasoning. The trend encourages understanding of operations, rather than the memorization of formulas and pro- cesses. We still retain some of the traditional courses, such as business math, math I, II, and III, in addition to algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and solid geometry. Math has always had a vital spot in the world. The goal of the math department is to help us meet the needs of the future.

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Room 4,s finished lab I P allows individual It bit me! cries Mr. Scholz as another experiment runs rampant. The science department teachers, Mr. K. Vance, Mrs. Firkin, Mr. Echols, Mr. Scholz, Mrs. Kephart, and Mrs. McCann, pose on the center steps. Now you're doing the cha-cha right, quips Flea Chamblin to Sheila Embrey as they fool around with Sadie of the biology department.