Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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MRS. CHARLES WORSTALL Robert Brass, junior Algebra III and trigonometry student, listens while his classmate Bill Sikes demonstrates the use of the slide rule. 18

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Teachers, curriculum, students fused into a single working unit make a school. Teach- ers at VHS differ in age, sex, and years of experience, but fundamentally they are alike. Helpful, dedicated, patient, imaginative— these adjectives describe them. Curriculum includes the humanities—Eng- lish, art, history, foreign language—math, the sciences, and commercial courses. While using this curriculum, teachers mold the lives oi students who come from the four- corners of the globe. In later years literate citizens, businessmen, service men, and professors will remember the influence of teachers long after they have forgotten subject matter. Of Curriculum

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Before the tardy bell rings, Greg Wolinski, senior, stops in Mrs. Charles Worstall’s room for help in solving a Math V problem. Mrs. Florence McMahon, student teacher, uses the blackboard to emphasize her explanation. Squares, Rectangles, Cones, Parabolas Give Reality to Math Study How exciting is a shadow? To the »o- mantically inclined, it may suggest a moonlit night. But to the mathematically minded, a shadow is shape, form, distance, a measuring point. All math classes at VHS familiarize stu- dents with the significance of certain forms. General math courses—Algebra I, Algebra II, plane geometry, and business math—introduce interesting shapes such as cones. In the advanced math classes, Algebra III and trigonometry, and Math V, students work with more intricate shapes, the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. They relate these unfa- miliar words with the familiar curve of a baseball and the arc of a rocket. By learning to measure and recognize va- ried shapes, students develop an increased awareness of the world about them and strengthen their reasoning powers. Amelia Castrinos, sophomore, and Laura Cole, junior, put the fin- ishing touches to a bulletin boqrd for Mrs. W. R. McClure's plane geometry class.