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Let’s go back to the early 1900’s. During this period of time, child labor was a common occurrence. Many children quit school in their teens to work long, strenuous hours for meager pay in an effort to support their families. Quite often the conditions of the workplace in which these children labored were extremely dangerous, exposing them to chemical and biological hazards. Jacqueline Davies does an excellent job of recounting these horrors in her historical fiction novel, Lost. Davies combines two true events of the early 1900’s with an excellently interpreted fictionalization of what life was like for a young girl during this time in history.

Essie is sixteen years old and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Her mother, ...

Mrs. Crosby, a skilled math teacher, said that in order to take Functions Statistics Trigonometry, students “need to have taken our Advanced Algebra course or an Algebra II course and the supplies they need are a graphing calculator, our text, [and] a notebook.” Usually, sophomores or older take this class. The course teaches “relationships between advanced function equations, graphs and their properties… Trigonometric functions which relate lengths of segments and angles in triangles and circles and can be extended to rotated quadratic relations and vectors, parametric and polar forms…look at data analysis in statistics and how that can be applied to functions.” This means that during class, students do math involving lines, shapes, and statistics. ...