Robert A Long High School - Lumberjack Yearbook (Longview, WA)

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Applying Math. To Actual Living Is Goal To stimulate the minds of students and teach them to apply math to actual living is the desire of the math department. Algebra I-IV, Geometry I-II, senior review, industrial math, and math analysis were courses offered this year. Math analysis, the most advanced course, consisted of solid geometry, trigonom- etry, and more advanced topics. Accelerated classes were in geometry. Algebra III, and math analysis. A great deal of new equipment was supplied to the math, science, and language departments through a national government plan. ■ » Students learn use of the slide rule V M - i

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Arlie DeJarnotl Smoll world, isn ' t Variety Of Subjects Offered In Social Studies Is Psychology offered as an elective to seniors? Yes, Psychology is one of the electives available in the social studies department. Along with it civics, contemporary world problems, world geography, and problems of democracy were included as choices for seniors. Every two years Washington state history, required for graduation, is offered for one semester for students who need it. As sophomores, students at R. A. Long are required to take world history; American history is required for juniors. --iJTjc ' f A „„ fii ' Hk. flni Orville Deltrkk Dorolhy Sonne ,.% ' ' 12

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Science Classes Challenge Students Acid is poured into a test tube and intent faces watch as it foams and bubbles. This is a familiar scene in a chemistry class at R. A. Long, one of the science classes. In incidents such as this, students learn more about their environment and the factors and sources that affect it. At R. A. Long biology, college pre- paratory general physics, and chemis- try give students an informal and prac- tical picture of science and its nimier- ous applications in our daily lives. . l ' They hve up to high objectives, and students find the courses stimulating and challenging. Working in the laboratory in chem- istry classes is part of the most inter- esting curriculum. Students become so absorbed in their experiments that often they unconsciously follow the sign on the wall saying, This is a lab- oratory. Please observe the first five letters and not the last seven. Physics, the study of energies, in- volves laboratory work, projects, and algebraic equations. Learning the anatomy of a frog and the strange process of evolution is a fascinating part of the biology classes. 14