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Achievement Profile:
The math teachers who
Anna Costello have worked with Anna have all
;., commented on her "outstanding

math ability and her desire to
. ; ..•. · ..
., learn as much as possible."
Anna is not only "doubling
~·"
up her math courses" by taking During an animated
Subject: Precalculus, both Precalculus and Topics in lectu re to his algebra
Math Topi cs I and II order to "enroll in AP Calculus class, math teacher
Mike Auman calls upon
What: "Outstanding her senior year," she also "cur- a student with a raised
math ability" rently attends meetings of the hand. In most math
Why: Goal-ori ented and Nebraska Chapter of Women classes, lectures were
not just one-sided talks;
moti vated Engineering to learn more about they became interactive
Recognized by: Math her future opportunities," math discussions between
department teachers said. teachers and their
classes. photo by
Michelle Lee

Technology S~ Time The same
Michelle Lee & Mary Peterson calculators
and computers
A group of students, united the computer programs relate it to
by a project to be completed with a real li fe ," junior Stacy Martin said. that made life
functi ons program, bent over their Conveni ence was not with- easier for
classroom computer. Next door, a out its downfalls, th ough. "Usin g students
lone student punched buttons in her calculators all the time makes you sometimes
graphing calcul ator, tracing the path too dependent on them. They al-
of a parabola for her algebra test. ways do the work for you, and you handicapped
In more and more math can't see all th e individual steps as them when
classes, technology became an in - you go through th e problems," se- they attempted
tegral part of the curriculum. ni or Dave Mcivor said .
"In my algebra class, we used "Sometimes it' s helpful to to work prob-
computers as tools to calculate for- work problems by hand . Then, you lems by hand.
mulas and make spreadsheets," can understand th em better," sopho-
freshman Ginger Kamrath said. more Sarah Hackworth said .
Computers and calcul ators Despite these drawbacks, stu-
made th e sometimes tedious tasks dent s were generall y favorabl e to
of number-crunching and graprung the new math technology. "It defi-
as easy as touching a few buttons. nitely makes math easier. That's
Students' 'whys' were clari - what technology is for, to save you
fi ed, as well. "Technology helps from working it all out," junior Ty
me understand the math because Stephenson said. r Mathematics ~ 'j