Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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Mr. Herman P. Lantner Miss Charlotte P. Chagnon MATHEMATICS Mr. William O. Bedard Chairman Why are we all getting different answers? 24

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A r Mrs. Dorothy N. Hatch Latin Mr. Kenneth L. Peckham Spanish Those lovely children left the switches on again, didn't they. To keep in step with the times, the language department placed a greater emphasis on the mechanics of writing the language to meet current needs, especially in preparing students for College Boards. A plan, begun this year in the ninth grade, grouped students according to ability and skill rather than by previous years of language study. Our prized language laboratory was also put to extra use by the growing school population. Mr. Harry Dicks French 23

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Two significant transitions took place in the mathematics department this year. The traditional learning by rote” approach was replaced by manipulative skills whose primary purpose is to illustrate mathematical concepts. Another change was the adoption of the spiral” method as a means of presenting new topics. Each new idea is introduced early in simple form and is then considered repeatedly, each time with more sophistication and inter-connection with previously taught material. Hopefully, this trend will make the subject more interesting and more easily learned. You seem to be going off on a tangent here, young man.” Miss Adeline G. Randall 25 Mr. George J. Lacouture, Jr. Mr. Metro Kwasnicki