New Haven High School - Mirage Yearbook (New Haven, IN)

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Lab Periods Can Be Fun! Zoology students learn much about the inner workings of animals through first hand observations. Biology students explore the world of minute organisms during a laboratory session.

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The spirits guard over Kathy ' s solution of this problen Math Contemporaries The teaching of mathematics will always form on im- portant part of our educational program. A person with some skill in moth is better equipped for almost any calling. Modern science is constantly relying on the aid of the mathematician. Algebra is the first special course in math; most stu- dents take their first year in junior high school as fresh- men. This primary year introduces the student to the fundamentals of algebra, which will be helpful in all later math courses. A second year of algebra and a fifth semester are available to the students, but these ore usually taken after plane geometry. These courses ore simply more detailed courses in algebra, and the fifth semester is composed almost entirely of fundamental theory. Plane geometry is a fascinating study of planes, angles, and figures. The fundamental truths, or assumptions, ore substantiated by theorems and corollaries, which must be proven by the student. Solid geometry is not yet offered as a separate course to New Haven students, but some of the more advanced students are introduced to It during the fourth quarter of plane geometry. Trigonometry, the study of solids, is offered as a one- semester course following college algebra. It is the high- est mathematics course offered at New Haven and one which math students find most interesting. Struggle Through Addition and Geometry First period geometry: when they ' re that eager, you l now it ' s posed. Multiplication is vexation. Division is as bad; The rule of three doth puzzle me, And practice drives me mad.

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Mr. Young uses the opaque proiector to illustrate a chemistry problem. The usual result! The Scientific Mind Is Not a Vessel to Be Filled but a Fire to Be Kindled Biology is a prerequisite for all special science courses. It is the study of life-human, plant, and animal. Many phases of life are covered; each is studied as deeply as possible in the one-year course. Most students prefer to take biology in their freshman or sophomore year. Botany or zoology are usually token in the some year-one course each semester. Botany is the study of plant life, from the simplest forms to the most complex. The most common trees, plants, and shrubs are introduced to the student. By the end of the semester, he is familiar with most of them. Zoology is the study of animal life, and this semester ' s agendo usually includes several field trips. Through dissection the zoology student learns much about anatomy from studying the inner parts of his prey. First-year chemistry is much like biology, an introductory course. It deals with the chemical make-up of sub- stances and starts the student on his way toward laboratory work. Most of the facts are taken from the text and lectures; this book-learning is then put to practical use in the lab. Chemistry may lead a student into either of two other courses: physics or analytical chemistry. In physics the physical make-up of the universe rather than the chemical is studied. Here is where much of one ' s mathematical background is used, for there are many types of problems which call for knowledge of fundamental algebra. Analytical chemistry is a special class for those students who excel in first-year chem- istry. Lab work is done almost every day, and the individual student works almost entirely on his own. Congratulations are in order for Jim Oberjin who represented NHHS at the Notional Science Fair in St. L ouis, Missouri.