Heather E. Schwartz - NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
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photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing
Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.
A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
241 F irst Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
Space Grant Consortium
Title: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson / Heather E. Schwartz.
Age 711. | Audience: Grade 4 to 6. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identi f iers: LCCN 2016049263 (print) | LCCN 2016050364 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512457032 (lb : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781512457049 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512457056 (eb pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Johnson, Katherine G. | African American women mathematiciansBiography
Juvenile literature. | MathematiciansUnited StatesBiographyJuvenile literature. | African
American teachersBiographyJuvenile literature.
Classi f ication: LCC QA29.J64 S39 2018 (print) | LCC QA29.J64 (ebook) | DDC 510.92 [B] dc23
1-42953-26767-2/17/2017
24, 25, 27; Courtesy of West Virginia State University, pp. 6, 8; The Dolph Briscoe Center for
American History, University of Texas at Austin, p. 10; Smith Collection/Gado/Archive Photos/
Getty Images, p. 14; NASA/Bill Ingalls, p. 26.
NASA Langley
Research Center
in 1980
honor women who excelled in mathespecially African
American women. When Katherine was young, women were
expected to be homemakers, teachers, or nurses. African
Katherine was born with a natural gift for numbers. Using her
talent for math, she excelled in school. And she broke barriers
in a career that put her to work as a brilliant mathematician,
doing mathematical calculations that would later be done
by computers.
in 1918. Her mother had been a teacher, and her father was
a farmer and a custodian. He had not gone to school beyond
the sixth grade. But he had a knack for working with numbers.
When he cut lumber, he could calculate the number of boards
he could get from a tree just by looking at it. He could also
solve math problems that Katherines teachers could not
f igure out.
a child, she was always counting. She counted her steps when
she walked to church. She counted plates and silverware when
she washed dishes after meals.
started school, Katherine was left behindbut not for long.
She was allowed into summer school early because she could
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