Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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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

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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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Mr. John R. Belleville Metal Shop 26 I don’t seem to have that feeling of mind over machine, thinks Maurice Ouellette. Technical Drawing is really technical, as Allen Renaud finds out.