Mattawan High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mattawan, MI)

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•athematics department IMF MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT CFPESS 31 YE A' 3 OF R1' GULAR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL VATHE,jA7 IC S AS WELL AS SEVENTH AND EIGHT GRADC STUDY OF THE BASIC OPERATIONS OF Ah|THEmETIC. IN THE HIGH SCHOuL DEPARTMENT A STUDENT MAY TAKE I YEARS CF ALGEBRA AND ONE YEAR OF PLANE GEOMETRY AS WELL AS TRIGONOMETRY aNS S-LID GEOMETRY IN THE AOVANC-Q MATHEMATICS CLASS THIRD SEMESTf ALGEBRA IS TAUGHT EACH FALL. THIS YEAR THE EMPHASIS IS ON LEART ! fJG TO USE EFFECTIVELY THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF ALGF3RA AS PREPARATION -FOR THE STUDY OF TRIGONOMETRY IN THE SPRING SEMESTER. NEXT YEAR THE SECOND SEMESTER WILL Be DEVOTED TO A STUDY OF St LICT GEOMETRY. AFTER THAT ADVANCED ALGEBRA WILL 8E OFFERED EVERY FALL AND'TRIGONOMETRY AND SOLID GEOMETRY WILL BE ALTERNATED IN THE SPRING. THE PLANE GEv ’ETRY CLASS HAS SPENT THE FIF.3T FEW WEEKS OF SCHOOL IN BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH THE LANGUAGE AND FORMS OF GEOMETRY. THIS WEEK THE CLASS IS BEGINNING TO PROVE FUNDAMENTAL GEOMETRIC PRINCIPALS. EACH STUDENT IS THUS DISCOVERING FOR HU-SELF THE SAME CONCEPTS THAT THE FIRST GEOMETERS DID THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THE FRESHMAN ALGEBRA CLASSES ARE LEARNING HOW TO SET UP AND SOLVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EQUATIONS WITH ONE UNKNOWN. THE EIGHT GRADE HAS JUST COMPLETED A UNIT DEALING WITH PROBLEMS OF LOCAL. STATE AND NATIONAL TAXATION FRCGRA '5. THE SEVENTH GRACE IS WORKING ON PER CENT PROBLEMS. 3EVERAL CAYS A'.o SOME VFRY ATTRACTIVE AMD ACCURATE WG'K WAG DONE BY THE 3 STUDENTS IN COLORING CERTAIN PREDETER’'I ME 0 PERCENTAGES Oe SQUARES AND CIRCLES. THIS KIND CF PRG3LFM3 HELPS MAKE THE IDEAS Oc DIFFERENT PERCENT VALUES CONCRETE FOR THE PUP IL.