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Show MATHEMATICS CLASS IN GEOMETRY. WEBER STAKE ACADEMY 37 GEOLOGY.......Dynamical and structural geology with special reference to the development of land forms. Special attention will be given to the geology of the Uintah and Wasatch Mountains, Glaciation and lacustrine deposits in Utah. Frequent field excursions and the collection and determination of rocks are important features of the course. Four hours per week second half year. Scott's Elements of Geology. LeConte's Elements, and Chamberlin and Salisbury's Process and Results for reference. MATHEMATICS. ARITHMETIC "A" NORMAL.The origin and nature of numbers; discussion of the unit and the evolution of the processes showing their relations to the unit; short discussions of all the subjects of arithmetic, emphasizing the best methods of how to reach them. The first five weeks will be devoted to lectures. Students taking this course will be required to have finished Prep. Arith. or its equivalent, and Psychology as offered in the Academy. Four hours per week during the second half year. ALGEBRA I.Required of first year students in the Normal, Classical, and Scientific courses. Fundamental principles, use of parentheses, factoring, highest common factor, least common multiple, fractions, equations, inequalities, involution and evolution, radicals, theory of exponents, quadratic equations, progression, binominal theorem and; logarithms. Five hours per week throughout the year. Well's Essentials. GEOMERTY I. PLANE.Required of second year students in the Normal, Classical and Scientific courses. This course includes retilinear figures, areas and plygons, regular polygans, maxima and minima. Problems of construction and demonstration throughout. Three hours per week throughout the year, Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised. ALGEBRA II. Required of third year students in the Classical course. Open as an elective to others. Interest and annuities, choice, chance, continued fractions, theory of numbers, variables and limits, summation of series and tests of their convergency, exponential and logarithmic series, determinates, etc., |