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

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U - - N., Caboveb A germ's-eye view of would-be scientist Marie Cowgill as she probed the mysteries of the microscopic world. Crightj Weights and measures were important in yielding the correct amounts of chemicals as well as scaling bacteria demonstrated Miss Cynthia LaPerche to Cassandra Cox and Barbara Linston. 46 .nw-use X :gg mnmsmas. - Ni p-'mid - news' Q - ls., .sf s-.i it x .. X. tax .V se m .X .... H 'SX . -. 1. . X. N 'W St gi - at fs A it.t -W . . kffifiim -asm-5 is J Wi' an-' x il 'lv ix wk., we X W?

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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

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New Lab Equipment Lessened Science Students, Work Load Money made dreams possible for the Science De- partment as appropriations came from the Dade County School Board and the Federal Government to purchase new equipment for each course in the department. Mysteries about the world unfolded before students in general science, biology, and earth science. Marine biology students experienced firsthand observations of sea life emphasizing sur- vival and the ways of the ocean creatures as field work to the seas supplemented classroom lectures. Science extended past the earth's workings, and nature's scientific principles evolved before chemis- try and physics students as they developed logical thinking processes to aid their comprehension of relative concepts. For those students whose natural inclinations and abilities led them to a deeper inter- est in science, laboratory research courses were created. These students spent considerable time in actual testing laboratories in Dade County conduct- ing actual research for Westinghouse Scholarships. Mathematically minded students thrived as Mr. Ed Stafford demonstrated a wind velocity equation during a class. SCIENCE Experimenting with solutions, Robert Johnson pondered over the quantity and substance of chemicals and how to mix them and not form combustion. Problems occasionally arose, and Miss Connie Huhn was available for. coun- seling and guidance when students said a particular concept was difficult. 47