Warwick Junior High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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Herb Soles looks over a display of math projects drawn or made by students. Kenny Simmons works an algebra problem, then explains it. Can you find the errors? Classwork, with books, paper and pencil is still a major activity for learning. A little teamwork on a problem sometimes helps. 79

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Second Period: M memedics Emphasis these days is on understanding mathematical con- cepts and the practical applications of math. The so-called new mathematics , which has received so much attention in the last few years, is gradually influencing the math program. Department meetings are frequently concerned with ways in which the program can be enriched and expanded. Both general math and algebra are offered in the eighth grade, and again in the ninth, so that two years of algebra, as we ll as general math, are offered. Mrs. Taback ischairman of the mathematics department, and there are ten other teachers of math at Junior High this year. The department will be expanded, of course, when the school is extended to include higher years of work. The Mathematics Teachers Seated, left to right: Mrs. Spence, Miss Wallace, Mrs. Anderson, and Mrs. Hall. Standing: Mr. Dunham, Mr. Bachman, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Leonard, Mrs. Taback, Mr. Bruffey, and Mr. Thompson. 78

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Students demonstrate use of compass, protractor, Real objects of mathematics, like solids, and the ruler, at the chalkboard. old abacus, help students get the idea. No matter what gadgets or gimmicks are devised to aid in the instruction of mathematics, probably nothing will ever completely replace the practice, under supervision, done at the board . Below, Jimmy Boon, Jimmy Goalder, David Edge, and Michael Smith ponder problems in an Algebra II class. 80