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Scientists in seeking the unknown, use mathematical formulas
to point the path of their research.
 The social sciences are concerned with science development.
Much history is the history of scientists and their discoveries.
Scientific discoveries have dramatically affected society in its
social and economic aspects. Society must make adjustments
as science solves more and more of the mysteries of life and mat-
ter.
 The English and literature classes, which study the speech and
thoughts of our people, tell of the important place science now
occupies in our lives. New words are added as new inventions
and processes are developed. Science stories and essays take their
place in our anthologies of literature. The teachers of science
and of English have much to gain by active cooperation in plan-
ning the written and oral reports of students who are in the
classes of both.

 SECTION 3. MATHEMATICS IN SCIENCE
 Many students fear science courses because they have heard
that these involve complex mathematics. Their fears are un-
founded, and the students should be set at rest promptly by the
science teacher.
 The mathematics required in each level of science will not
need any specialized teaching if the student has mastered the
various fundamentals as they are taught in the grades. Mathe-
matics has been taught earnestly in the grades. .Students, how-
ever, forget; and it is our responsibility to take them at what-
ever mathematical level we find them. The need for mathe-
matics as a tool should be shown and skill improved by review
and reteaching. It would be well for the science teacher to have
at hand copies of the texts for seventh and eighth grade mathe-
matics and for Algebra I for reference and review.
 In the seventh grade and through the ninth grade science
classes and biology, very little mathematics is needed. It would
be well to review the abilities of students to substitute quan-
tities in a simple formula and to solve for an unknown. A
familiar example is the conversion of temperature scales.