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

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Mathematics classes prepare students EQUATION DRILL— Paula Percy, Melodie Rose, Chuck Rossman, Dean Stine, and Gary Karbach work first year algebra equations at the blackboard. Reviews and board drills helped the students learn and retain the basic con- cepts of algebra. LOGIC AND REA,SONING— Jerry Ambrosini, sophomore, uses reasoning, logic, and common sense to complete a geometry assignment. FIR.ST DEGREE EQUATION— Sophomore Kit Conrad plots an equation on a graph projected on the board by an over-head projector.

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ELECTIONS AND WAR— (Above) United States Government teacher Miss Betty Leuenberger explains a sample election ballot to senior Dave De Voe. (Left) Junior Ed Treace inspects a current events bulletin board on the topic of Viet Nam war. A call from the local draft board faced many graduating seniors. in social studies NAPOLEONIC HISTORY— Mr. Edmund Zapp uses a map to clarify his points on the Napoleonic Era to world history students Jim Reams. Pat Geise, and Pam Taylor. They are all sophomores.

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for future living Computers took over jobs this year that hadn ' t even been devised 25 years ago. Every day the world became more and more complex; great emphasis was placed on technical training. Mathematicians with the help of computers, under- took jobs that would have staggered Atlas. Every federal in- come tax forms were checked, and satellite paths to the planets were calculated. Mathematics courses helped prepare students for life in this complex world. Business math taught pupils how to handle figures and understand basic arithmetic used in every facet of life in the home and on the job. Logic and reasoning powers were developed in plane geometry, a sophomore class. Having the answers was not enough; the how and why had to be explained. The theories of Galois, taught in modern algebra, gave pupils a whole new math vocabulary to handle — sets, func- tion, systems, and graphs. Senior mathematicians struggled with secants and tangents, sines and radiands. In the final year of mathematics, college prep students studied one semester of advanced algebra, while the second semester was occupied with the study of trigo- nometry. CONCENTRATED STUDY— The student institution known as cram- ming seldom helps pupils taking geometry tests. Attention in the classroom and daily study is the better way to prepare for a test. SIN C EQUALS . . .—Senior John Hack constructs triangles at the black- board as proof of trigonometry statements.