McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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 Mac High's math department is doing things big this year as illustrated by slide rule and mathematician, Tom Green. Jan McCullough, however, assures that shorter height doesn't stop her from working bigger problems.

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cience Science is on the way up in McMinnville High School as can be shown by the three new programs that were added to the curriculum during the past year. Besides the sophomore classes in B.S.C.S. (Biological Science Curriculum Study) Biology, a new senior or second level Biology course was tried. McMinnville High School was one of nineteen schools in the United States to try this new teaching technique to experimental biology. The Chemical Education Materials Study was added to the chemistry program on an experimental basis in 1962-63. Special emphasis is placed on the problem approach to the study of chemistry. In the senior year students have the opportunity to take physics or physical science, depending on their future educational plans. A new course in earth and space science that will enlarge science curriculum is now in the planning stage. Physics opens a new field of interest to students such as Larry Beathe, Terry Armstrong, and Si Butler, especially in the area of experimentation.

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Math In keeping with the state and national trend in mathematics curriculum, McMinnville High School presents a versatile program designed to meet the varying abilities and needs of all students. At each level the understanding of concepts has been re-emphasized. This has not eliminated the need for basic skills, but has lessened the drill required for mastery. This approach has provided opportunity for presentation of ideas not previously found in the high school curriculum. MR. VERBAL SNOOK Mafh VII Moth VI Algebra II MR. DAVE COX Geometry MR. DAVE SEARS Algebra I O MR. BILL WORRELL Basic Math MR. ROBERT PAUL Solid Geometry and T rigonometry Geometry Algebra II 23