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majority of the student body's use; Claus said. Jacobsen said .
daily life, from something as little Students not only worked with Focht worked at a chemistry
as figuring out how many more numbers in school, but also in lab in the quality control
minutes until lunch, to the extent activities outside of the department, and his job was also
of learning essential information classroom. Sophomore Derek based around numbers.
in math class that would be used Prinz was on the school's soccer "We use numbers to see if our
in fwture occupations. team, and he often used products are flawed; Focht said .
nowledge of numbers was numbers during his practices. For Numbers also enabled
fundamental in a majority of instance, the soccer team did students to communicate with
classes . fitness tests where it did drills each other .
"I am taking AP Calculus BC, called suicides . Students were "Without phone numbers I'd
and we examine how required to run six yards and have to talk to my friends in
mathematics relate to real world back, 18 yards and back, and 60 person all the time," junior Alysia
situations, specifically physics," yards and back all in a mere 32 Mann said.
senior Jordan Focht said . seconds . Sophomore Scott Mclaughlin
For example, Focht said that "Irs a race against time," Prinz thought that numbers were an
he used graphs as a tool to said, "I have to run so hard to imperative necessity to life. He
figure out the dimensions of beat the clock that I can felt that without numbers, the
falling objects. practically taste blood in my world would be in a constant
Other classes besides math lungs: state of chaos.
also required students to work Part-time jobs that the "There would be no dates, no
with numbers . Those classes students worked at were another times, and everything would be in
included many science and band out of class activity that most complete disorder, which would
classes. Junior Katie Claus took commonly required them to have lead to the downfall of the
a music theory class where nor"loronl ICI10\AII9Cia9 Of hOW tO economy, government, and
numbers were used as a overall life," Mclaughlin said .
reading music. Therefore, numbers were,
"Just like in without question, a vital part of
life.

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