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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEbRuARY 1, 2019
© 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 10
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Photo: NASA
s a child, Katherine Johnson loved
to count. She counted the dishes.
She counted the steps. She even counted
stones. She simply counted everything!
Count the stars
on this page.
Then have a
friend try. Who
found the most?
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Katherine was born in White Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia. She was the
youngest of four children and she Find the path
couldn’t wait to join her siblings
to school.
at school! She used to follow them
as they walked to school.
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Patience
Hard Work
Determination
After graduating from college in
1937, Katherine became a teacher.
Katherine said it was
hard work to be good
at math and her other
subjects. And work
hard she did. She
skipped two grades in
elementary school, and
went on to get degrees
in mathematics and
French.
Katherine’s community was segregated. That meant
there were many places African-American people
couldn’t go, including the local high school. Katherine’s
parents were so determined that she have a good
education that they moved the family 120 miles so
Katherine and her siblings could attend high school.
In 1953 she was hired by the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) and was
finally able to use her math skills!
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Because of her intelligence, curiosity, and positive
attitude, Katherine was asked to work on many different
projects. When NACA turned its attention to space
flight, it changed its name to NASA (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration).
The Human
Computer
Photo: NASA
Katherine was asked to work on the complicated math
problems that would establish the flight path for the
spacecraft that would take the first American into space
and back in 1961. Use the code to discover his name.
JOE’S
In 1953, computers
were not as good as
they are today and
mathematicians,
who were called
“computers,” did the
math needed for
flight research.
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How fast did Friendship 7
travel in its 4 hour and 56
minute flight? Do the math!
Persistence
Replace the missing words.
Count the
Numbers
When Katherine was _____________ at NASA,
women were not allowed in the spaceflight
meetings. She kept ____________ if she could
go, even asking if there was a _______ against it.
Her persistence paid off and she was finally
invited to attend all ______________.
around Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962, as well as
the Apollo 11 and 13 flights to the ________.
Over time, even though electronic ___________
took on more work at NASA, Johnson remained
highly valued for her accuracy. She performed
calculations for John Glenn’s successful orbits
Working on these manned flight paths was
stressful. Katherine knew that if her calculations
were off by even a few feet or seconds, the
astronauts might not make it ___________!
miles per hour
Standards Link: Students use strategies to understand literary passages
Take one page of the
newspaper and circle
all of the numbers
you can find. Then,
count the number
of numbers! What
do the different
numbers show?
Standards Link: Research:
Use the newspaper to
locate information.
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Humility
Katherine won many awards and
made history for the space program,
for women’s rights and for racial
equality. But she always remained
humble. She quoted her father.
Replace the vowels to find out
what her father would tell her.
“Y_ _ AR_ AS G_ _D
AS _NYB_DY. B_T
Y_ _ ’RE N_ B_TT_R.”
Standards Link: Follow simple written directions.
KATHERINE
CURIOSITY
POSITIVE
ACCURACY
COMPUTER
COUNTED
DISHES
ORBIT
SPACE
STEPS
WHITE
MATH
PATH
FOUR
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How many of them can you
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Katherine Johnson had many character traits
that led to her successes. Look through the
newspaper for an article about a successful
person and make a list of character traits that
help to make that person so successful.
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Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.
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