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Show 34 WEBER STAKE ACADEMY, MATHEMATICS Arithmetic.-The Academy, realizing the poor foundation in arithmetic many students have when they enter upon their work in the High School, offers a course in advanced arithmetic outlined as follows: The origin of number, the numerical idea, the relation of the fundamental processes to the unit of measurement, the elimination of "nicknames" in arithmetic, and a complete discussion of live arithmetical subjects. Required of all first year students excepting those who may pass satisfactory examination. Three hours per week first semester. Algebra I. Required of first year students in the Normal, Classical, Scientific, and Business courses. Fundamental principles, use of parenthesis, factoring highest common factor, least common multiple, and fractions. Five hours per week first and second semesters. Text: Stone and Mills. Algebra II.Required of students in the Normal, Classical and Scientific courses. Inequalities, involution, and evolution, radicals, theory of exponents, quadratics, equations, progression, proportion, binomial theorem and logarithems. Five hours per week first and second semesters. Text: Stone and Mills. Geometry I, Plane.Required of second year students in the Normal, Classical, and Scientific courses. This course includes rectilinear figures, areas and polygons, regular polygons, maxima, and minima; problems of construction and demonstration throughout. Three hours per week throughout the year. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised. OGDEN, UTAH. 35 Geometry II, Solid.Required of third year students in the Classical and Scientific courses. Lines and planes in space, polyhedrons, cylinders, cones, spheres, and the conic sections. Four hours per week during the first half year. Wentworth's Plane and Solid Geometry, Revised. Trigonometry.Open as an elective. The trigonometrical functions, general formula of plane and spherical trigonometry, solution of plane spherical triangles, practice in the use of logarithmic tables. Five hours per week during the first half year. Crockett's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. |