Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Mathematics teacher Vera Biddle helps Mark Willis solve a difficult problem after class. Students ' ' Well, students ' says Mr. Akers, No, Art Wittmack isn ' t playinp tic-tac-toe. He ' • if you don ' t know I ' m certainly working out a probability problem concerninji: not Koing to tell you! cafeteria que. (Gordon Garrison Lawrence Stokka Ronald Storm Algebra Advanced Algebra Advanced Algebra Geometry Probability 19

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At Roosevelt, students may take math courses from Geometry I to College Preparatory Mathe- matics. Although only one year of math is re- quired for graduation, many students take two or more to meet college requirements. Many enjoy the challenge of such courses as math prob- ability. Ethel Cain Senior Math Statistics Probability Advanced Math Classes Challeng Jean Bishop and Tom (lerdom attempt to work out a permutation problem on the board before their advanced math class. Max Akers Clyde Anderson Advanced Algebra Advanced Algebra Senior Math Basic Math roniTiKTcial Ai ' ithniotic Vera Biddle Geometry Robert Cumming s Izac Emrich Advanced Algebra A -. i Algebra

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Students Discover the Wide World Science at Roosevelt plays an important part in informinK the student of the world around him and in adequately preparing him for the more difficult science courses in college. Almost all students take biology as sophomores, and a lar e percentage also ko on to enroll in chemistry and physics. Roosevelt has some of the finest science laboratory facilities in the state, and throujrh these labs students develop the habit of formal problem solution.