A brief History of my High School Mathematics Class
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As I progress through my 33rd year of teaching, I can’t help but reflect on the many changes that have taken place. As a secondary school student I did not have an electronic calculator until late1973 when I was in Form 4 (Year 10). Prior to that I depended on a “Log book” the: Kaye and Laby, Four-Figure Mathematical Tables. Longman, Aust. Columns and columns of logarithms, anti-logarithms, sines, cosines, tangents, reciprocals, squares, cubes and the standard normal distribution table. I can remember that my first green covered 1962 edition fell apart after much use. Then I had the red covered 1971 edition which also fell apart. Finally I had the silver covered 1975 edition as seen in the image on the right: (Insert supplied image of exercise book, log book and calculator here.) As you can see I still did pages and pages of calculations using logarithms and antilogs and as is evident from my Form 4 Maths folder which was meticulously set out. My first calculator was a Novus 4510 Mathematician scientific calculator with LED numerals and used “Reverse Polish Notation”. It was (and still is) powered by a 9V battery and after 40 years is still in good working order! (Insert supplied image of Novus calculator here.) Back in those days you were not allowed to use calculators in exams and this included the Form 6 HSC exam. You were however, allowed to use slide rules and I still have two of those somewhere in my “way back when” chest. (Insert one of the supplied images of a slide rule here.) Directory: lessons lessons -> Lesson Title: The ufw vs a Traditional Union Grade Level lessons -> 11th and 12 Grade Teachers lessons -> Missouri Compromise & Indian Removal Act lessons -> Lesson Title: César E. Chávez: An Instrument of Change in a Democracy Grade Level lessons -> Ush: 1: Launching the Nation drill: Pardon & Apportionment Pardon: Freedom from punishment Apportionment: Distribution of representatives in the House of Representatives Objective lessons -> Alice Paul, “Why the Suffrage Struggle Must Continue,” The Suffragist, April 21, 1917 from Ellen Skinner, ed lessons -> American Government 1 The Colonial Period Drill: Laissez-faire & Capitalism Laissez-faire economy- a hands-off economy lessons -> Faith and Imperialism: Josiah Strong and the Missionary Impulse for Expansion lessons -> Goal: The goal of this lesson is for students to apply information that they have learned about the daily life of colonial children in Massachusetts and use Download 3.73 Kb. Share with your friends:
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