Traverse City High School - Pines Yearbook (Traverse City, MI)

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A typical math doss of bnghr, eager, and very pleasant students Now you know why teachers are pa ) so much Mark James takes o make-up test using that krrie few of exrro heip known to many as a cheat sheer' Scott Strait uses his vast knowledge of Probobiry and Statistics to outsmart ha opponent in a far P) gome of cards 19

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Welcome To The Morh-Hondlers Delieve ir or nor, there's really no reason or all ro dislike Morh or TCHS. Although only one year of Algebra is required ro graduate on a College Prep diploma, many students elect ro continue in morh classes as on exaring, beneficial port of their schedule For those who don't particularly enjoy working with Trigonometry tangents and cosines, there is Computer Programming. In this doss, students invent, load, and run programs on three sophisticated computers Also offered is Probability and Statistics, which works with odds on dice and coins. Of course, ordinary, everyday Geometry, Algebra, Functions, and Calculus ore always available ro the daring mathematician And what do you do with all this knowledge? Just rake Applications — this class relates all the others ro real life encounters. Dove Voice rerreors ro o outer ploce so he con concenrrore on bormyg up on his studes Ponence a one of rhe most mporronr quotes o morh reocher con possess, os explononons usuofy need ro be mode over and over This compurer doesn't understand anything! moons John Lehr os he wodes through ha latest perplexng program 18

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Now I Understand!!! In rhe Sodol Studies deportment, almost os many learning experiences were gained outside rhe classroom as in it. Crime and Justice students visited courtrooms andpits, future psychologists tools surveys ond polls, and sociology people dowsed for water. Once ogoin this year, sophomores were required to take o doss colled American Perspectives, to march rhe juniors' Consumer Economics and rhe seniors' American Government. When asked about the value of these dosses, students' reactions ranged from: ''It's going to help me o lor when I get our of school, I con relate to it, to It helps me to understand why things are rhe way they are now. Perhaps this is rhe best way to sum up Social Studies dosses: on understanding of our way of life ond rhe people in it.