Radford High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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Math students are taught “one plus one Math is a subject known to all Radford High students from the time they enter as an eighth grader until the time that they are graduated. Advanced arithmetic is the curriculum for math 8 and senior math com- pletes a student’s more difficult studies. Two credits are required in mathematics to be graduated, and a student may elect to take math 9, business math, algebra I or II, geometry, trigonometry, and college algebra. Raymond Singleton tries to learn math 8 from a classmate as he and Terry Cash work at the board on distance problems. Having a handy classmate helps when you are teaching the class as Patty Turner has found out. Community property is the best answer to hard problems in business math, or is it? John Whitehead and Sue Shiflett find that drawing figures in geometry helps in seeing the relation of sides to angles and i i — 26 —

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skills in Business courses lating in their bookkeeping class. These students learn the basic rules for bookkeeping and apply them to problems given them to work. A first-year typing class does a conditioning practice before attempting their regular work. Each student works individually in office practice class. They are taught to use all the types of machines that could be found in an office. Gather Blackburn fills out a check and explains the reason for the information given to his general business class. Zelda Simpson has a question to ask in her shorthand class. Answers are often needed to questions concerning outlines, transcription, and dictation. The distributive education and industrial cooperative training courses are taught in the morning classes and students work at their particular jobs in the afternoons. Members of the distributive education class dis- cuss the qualities that each employer look for in his potential employee. Students in the industrial cooperative training course work on speeches they have made on the tape recorder. Through listening to and study- ing these tapes, the students may learn necessary corrections which will help them succeed in their training. — 25 —

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to doubt the probability of equals two” to solving problems. Senior math is not merely an advanced arithmetic as one can see from the complexity of the figure drawn by Alan Vaughn. Pam Cook finds that using the overhead projector is a very good aid in explaining problems to her first-year algebra class. This is one of the newer ma- chines used by the school in an effort to keep up with ever-expanding teaching aids. College algebra and trigonometry are taught in semesters and complete a year’s study. Bill Semones works on sine, cosine, and tangent of an angle of depression. Gary Goodwin reads a verbal problem to his class- mates in his second-year algebra class. The subject matter in this one science field varies in activities and degrees of com- plication. By the time one is graduated from Radford, he has learned many of the basic ideas which formulate the complex processes of our society today. — 27 —