Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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 The Department of Mathematics OHE department of mathematics of our school offers two year’s work in algebra, one in plane geometry, one term in solid geometry, and one term in plane trigonometry. This term, we have twenty-nine classes, taught by eight teachers, five of whom teach nothing else. These classes are full, some to overflowing. Our aim is to lay a secure foundation for the advanced mathematics necessary to all scientific work, to use and train the reasoning powers, to develop habits of accuracy and mental alertness, and to permit the mathematical elect to enjoy themselves in this kind of thinking. While all serious work becomes irksome at times, anyone observing our students at work would be convinced that but few of them are unhappy in it. To be sure, we are favored, in that mathematics is not required. Those whose talents be along other no less useful lines, and who would suffer too acutely, let it alone. While we know there are bright boys and girls that do not take mathematics, it is undoubtedly true that our advanced classes are picked groups, above the average in intelligence. Eighteen

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