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o you want to go shopping future. Senior Jeff Hansen, a Math Topics
li after school, Darlene? " student, said, " Math Topics is a very hard
" There 's no way Agnes . I class, but I really feel it will help me in the
have sooo much math to do, I'll be doing future. Especially when I get to program
homework for the rest of my life!" the space shuttle some day."
Did this sound familiar? What did Aside from ordinary math, there were
,., students really think of when the subject courses in computers offered to interested
1.' of math came up? The most common students. There was even a computer club. 3
response from a math student was " it's This club centered on independent study
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;," so boring" or " it's too hard" . Some of computers. The enrollment varied in
people thought that if they had a numbers. Students had the opportunity to
:1, ll calculator handy, then they were ready program computers, solve problems, learn
for anything.
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That may have been true in a few the logic involved. They also looked at new
rare cases, but as Freshman Kelly Olsson hardware and software.
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~I stated, " I think it's important to take as Senior Scott Laurence, who was
much math as possible, because every- involved in a computers course, stated, " I
one will need some sort of math in their love computers. It's a lot of fun and it

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Although two years of some sort of potential."
math was mandatory in the curriculum, When students looked past the usual
many students took more. Students in hum -drum of math, a lot could be seen,
advanced courses, such as Math Topics, other than hours of homework. Senior
II felt a great sense of accomplishment Shawn llg summed it all up when he said,
when looking back on all they had done " It's great! Math is a challenge and a
:, and all they will be able to do in the sophisticated way of life!"
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