Miami Killian Senior High School - Catamount Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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MATHEMATICS DRAWING ON THE MATHEMATICS' TABLE WAS PERMISSABLE WHEN PLOTTING LINEAR EQUATIONS AND POINTS A, B SOLVE X FIRST, ILLUSTRATED MRS. ELEANOR BLACK TO ONE OF HER ALGEBRA STUDENTS WHO WAS PERPLEXED BY THE EQUATION 44

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l il fc-e. Audio-visual aides were an asset to all departments as Mr. Art Frankel relied on the over-head projector and acetates for his geometry lessons. lf the rain's going to fall, let it, mused Mr. Charles Hirsh as he signed into school prepared for any of the elements, lunch, and geometry class. Games, Puzzles Made Game of Math, Ending Puzzlement Foreseeing the future was a difficult, uncertain, but necessary task for Mathematics' Department teachers as they tried to prepare a utilitarian math foundation which their students would find ap- plicable ten years hence. With the new concepts being used today, the department had to predict the type of mathematics which would be used tomorrow in the computer age. The Math Resource Center contained calcula- tors for use by consumer math students, pro- grammed study books, mathematical puzzles and games, all of which were made available to the student. The new Consumer Nlath course strove to cover basic mathematical operations which an average person would use in his daily purchases and expenditures. Team teaching, a system recently installed at Killian, pervaded this department in the Algebra I classes. This particular course was revamped, and the use of programmed sequences allowed pro- gression at the individuals own pace in the small classrooms. Lectures and visual demonstrations clarified concepts for the large group classrooms. i A Chesire-cat grin but no pot pipe was seen on the face of Mr. Bruce Thom, mathematics teacher and bowling team coach. 45