Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Mathematics Department Experiments with K iTop Rowl MR. DAN HALL: department chairman, Basic Math II, Consumer Math, Geometry, morning devotions, Key Club: MR. PHILLIP BROWN: Basic Math, Trig- Analyt, Math V Functions, Chess Club: lMiddle Rowl MISS LILLIE JORDAN: Math I, Basic Math I, Basic Math II, Algebra I, Student Council, Activettes: MR. CARROLL LITTLE: Basic Math I, Algebra ll, Scheduling, Senior Class: lBot- tom Rowl MRS. BETTY McCOLLUM: Algebra II, Computer Math, Basic Math: Anchor Club, Student-Faculty Advisory Committee: MRS. JACQUELINE MUEL- LER: Basic Math Il, General Math ll, Algebra I, Sophomore Class. 38 Because of flexible modular sche- duling, a brand new course could be offered to math students. Compu- ter math involved a nine-mod block of time each D-day plus three sche- dule back mods. Students learned to solve problems on a computer which was located on the Lively Technical School campus. A pilot course in the county, the computer math course was team- taught. Early second semester, the class and teachers had an open house for other math teachers in the county to show them how the program operated. Consumer mathematics was the on- ly other new course in math. This course was intended to help prepare students for daily life matters, such as preparing tax returns. Individual- ization of mathematics to the spec- ial needs of students was empha- sized in the department. All basic mathematics and general mathematics courses were taught by individual instruction, which gave students who accepted the responsibility a chance to pro- gress at their own speed and ability. A special Title I teacher, Mr. M.T. Brown, was assigned to the mathe- matics department to work with those students in grades 9, 10 and 11 who needed special help. Stu- dents met in small groups to work on an individualized program in which they graded themselves. Special activities of a fun-whiIe- learning nature were stressed in the mathematics resource center. ln addition to getting special help and doing assignments, students could play various math games. The de- partment even began a chess club for students who knew something about the game and who wanted to compete with other players. Computer mathematics students Nayola Frazier and Ray L'Amoreaux operate the computer at Lively Technical School in their computer math class.

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iLefti During schedule back time, Paul Collar, a chemistry student, works on a lab assign- ment lBelowi Science teachers Mrs. Mangram and Mi: Hackley work together on organizing studentsjoapers 37

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Team Teaching, Individualized Freshman Rupert Seals uses an over-sized compass at the blackboard to demonstrate how to solve a problem in geometry to his classmates Mrs. Darlene Long, a new teacher at Rickards this year, explains an algebra problem to her class by going through all the steps of an equation. 40 , 3. if E4 ff, , . ' fa, n , -' ' ' W : .W 1. Yflf X I : 4 as 523 N.. ,?,, . , eeei . 're-wr f ire- ,ff t I ITop Rowi MRS. MERRY SPEIDEL: Basic Math ll, Algebra I, Scheduling, MRS. CAROL STRICKLAND: Math I, Algebra I, Geometry, Advanced Geome- try, Sophomore Class, MR. ED WAL- TERS: Geometry, Pre-Algebra, General Math Ip MR. P.C. WU: Math I, Pre-AIge- bra, Advanced Algebra, Screening Com- mittee Chairman, Key Club. INot Pic- turedl MRS. DARLENE LONG: Math ll Basic Math II, Algebra. I, Cgmputer Math Chess Club. ii 3 , MR. M.T. BROWN: Title I, Basketball 39