The Seagull, Yearbook of Port Arthur High School, 1918 Page: 69
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The Department of Mathematics
lIEN a boy leaves school before the completion of High School. and be-
gins the work, which he must do to earn a living in a busy world, experi-
ence teaches him many things. It teaches him soon that the other fellow,
his competitor in trade or business, has a key to doors which he cannot unlock,
and often he finds the lack of the principles of mathematics an absolute bar to his
future Irogress.
(;irls, too, sometimes, in their various vocations find a genuine need for that
which will bridge the gap between the mathematics which they learned in school
and that which employers require.
IFor many years mathematics has been taught as a cultural subject, and such
it is. The subject that teaches reason and logic with exactness of thought and
statement, as this one does, may possibly have earned a place in the High School
curriculum for these reasons alone. But without losing an atom of cultural value,
mathematics may be taught for another purpose.
\\hen the Nile overflowed in the early periods of history, the Egyptians
found mathematics an effective tool for the re-establishment of bounderies oblit-
crated by the floods. It was something to be used even in the days of long ago.
It is still something to be used, but in an infinite variety of ways of which
the Egyptians could not have dreamed. The economic management of every
home, the selection of a healthful dietary, every building operation, every com-
mercial enterprise, and every victory in the world war are alike dependent upon
the use of mathematics. While teachers have long been of the opinion that the
person who had theoretical mastery of the subject could apply his knowledge to
whatever practical problem that might arise, it is of later years thought well to
point out to the student more directly how it may be used. And this is the other
aim of the Mathematics Department in the Port Arthur High School.
\\hen people learn to know mathematics as a dynamo of power, ready at a
touch to do their bidding, they will never say: "I took algebra and that other stuff
in High School b;ut never found it practical." V. B. C..\ -
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