Sylvania Northview High School - Wyandotte Yearbook (Sylvania, OH)

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Burns says: ath is fun By the year 2000, scientists predict that many everyday activities will be controlled by computers. Yet computers cannot run themselves, and humans will still be needed to use and maintain them. But how does one learn to operate computers? For the past several years, a computer programming course has been offered at Northview. This quarter-long class teaches students how to program the computers and read the results. According to Mrs. Roberta Hudson, one of the three teachers who instructed the course, the classes were almost full. To teach the many math courses offered, many teachers and a variety of texts were needed. In order to fill the spaces created by 'V f r . lim, 1 s.. tttr't -Q., t,y .W gr , 16 resignations, two teachers were added to the math section this year. Mr. Terrance Minsel, who previously taught electronics here for five years, taught general math. Miss Susan Green, who taught algebra and geometry, was new to Northview. New analysis books, both honors and regular, were added to the existing texts. With the increase in enrollment the past year, plus the addition of teachers and text- books, Northview's math department is looking to the future. As Mr. Burns says, The good math teachers that we had this past year were really needed to instruct our students in this mathematical world of ours. it Senior lim Lange labove leftl discovers that Honors Making sure his point is understood tabovel is Calculus is not always easy, as he receives help from senior Mike Arvavitis Miss lan Steele.

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ll Working to improve her computer skills is freshman Taking' time out to explain the day's calculus Kristin Parker. homework to senior Lisa Engen is senior Bob Jacobs. N thu... X. at .. Ancient arithmetic What would school have been like more than 100 years ago, sitting in a little red schoolhouse, with one teacher for all the students? Mr. Allen Burns may have part of the answer. As a hobby, Mr. Burns collects old math textbooks. The oldest book in his 600-plus collection is entitled Complete Measure. It was printed in Dublin, Ire- land, in 1785. Despite the fact that it is almost 200 years old, it is in fairly good condition. The math volumes, which Mr. Burns began collecting about five years ago, were found in antique shops, through book dealers and in the classified ad sec- tions ofthe newspapers. The oldest books are leather-bound, beginning in 1850, the covers became cardboard. The books deal with practical, everyday problems and contain very little theory. An example of life on the western fron- tier may be found in Ray's Arithmetic, published in 1877. When Mr. Burns reads story problems to students from the book using quantities of rum to illustrate an addition problem, the students found it surprising that alcohol was mentioned in a school book. Such problems are ex- amples of how life has changed since the 18005. These books, in addition to showing how mathematics techniques have changed, give students a chance to glimpse how life was many years ago. Mr. Allen Burns demonstrates to his Honors Geometry class how to remove a vest without - taking off the suitcoat. 17!Math