Northeast High School - Viking Log Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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At the touch of a button. Allen Garen learns to program a computer during his Computer Math class. Working overtime! Becky Gray, Ioe Iaskiewiez, and CeCe Driver par- ticipate in the Florida Math League Test given after school. Students take this exam six times a year to test the development of their mathematics' skills. Math on the mind. A believer in an individualistic approach, Mrs. Gladys Cummings teaches math un- til it is well understood by the students. Mrs. Cummings assists General Math student Sheri Bailey. 176 MATHEMATICS

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Showing their pride Hands-on experience was what the Industrial- Technical Department tried to give students. Teachers in this department endeavored to provide students with the knowledge and the ex- perience necessary for them to become well-trained and knowledgeable in the voca- tional field they chose. In classes ranging from Auto Mechanics to Culinary Arts, the students were taught skills that were necessary to enter the job market. The department helped their students learn to be proud of their work and showed them the di nity of workin . The rewards for doing good work in class were many - from being chosen to compete in contests sponsored by the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, to being hired for a job based on class experience. The school as well as the community received benefits from the Industrial- Technical classes. Carpentry students built a television equipment console for the media Center, teachers had their cars fixed by the Auto Mechanics Class, and the Commercial Cooking classes prepared lunches for school officials and other groups. The Carpentry, Air Condi- tioning, and Culinary Arts classes also constructed a restaurant forefront for the Commercial Cooking classes to work in when they served meals. With the experience they ained and the skills they Tearned, students had the capabilities to enter a career in a vocational field. The were able to do a job welli and their pride in what they did never stopped showing. sh wz. . Visit? , . A - .... - -il -Q W, A steady supply of cars goes into the Auto Body garage. Teachers, ad- ministrators, and students themselves let the Auto Body students repair their cars, and the benefits are mutual. The students gain more hands-on experience, and the car donors get free repairs. Iames Suggs, Scott Taylor, and Mike Ethridge work to supply the demand. Under repair. Steve Shipley, Charles Flowers, Odell Robinson, and Dave SanSouci work to repair an air-conditioning condensing unit. INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION 175

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A practical solution What subject adds to our knowledge, subtracts from the frustrations of daily life, multiplies our job oppor- tunities, and divides us from the undereducated? The answer - math, especially when it was taught by the capable Math Department, consisting of thirteen teachers, all of them ready and willing to help students understand and apply math to their daily lives. According to department head, Mr. David Vera, he and the other math teachers endeavored to find a more effective means of placing students in the math courses appropriate to their needs and abilities and to increase the number of students pass- ing the state assessment test. One of the ways the depart- ment did this was by exten- sive use of individual instruc- tion in the functional math classes. Another way the math teachers strove to help the students was through the use of the microcomputer laboratory. The computers were not only used in the teaching of computer pro- grammingg they were also us- ed in the teaching of the Algebra II classes. Our com- puter programming classes used the microcomputer lab to write programs for use in various areas throughout the school, stated Mr. Vera. The purpose was to en- courage students to work on meaningful programming projects that they found in- teresting and that would be useful to others within our school. Since math is such an integral part of our lives, it is helpful to have it presented to us in such interesting ways. :Mt .W Problems, postulates, and proofs all contribute to the complexity of geometry. Paul Vrablic, an Advanc- ed Geometry student, gets a little help from Ms. Barbara Bohne, while Iulie Ioviak patiently works on problems. To the nth degree! In geometry, drawings and measurements must be accurate, so Ms. Susan Smith teaches her students to construct their angles with the greatest degree of precision. Computer wizard! Michael Fit- zgerald may not be able to perform magic using the school's computer, but he can manage to write a com- puter program with ease. MATHEMATICS 177