Black History Month - Hidden Figures

Black History Month Hidden Figures

To work through independently alongside the Movie!

Multiple Choice

What year is the film set?

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

Multiple Choice

Young Katherine is identifying her primes at the beginning of the film.

Select the correct list of the first ten primes.

• 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17

• 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19

• 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29

• 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20

Fill in the Blanks

What solution do you get when you multiply anything by zero?

Fill in the Blanks

Where do Katherine, Mary and Dorothy work?

Vocabulary

SEGREGATION [ seg-ri-gey-shuhn ]

The institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.

The state or condition of being separated, or restricted to one group.

Segregation on buses meant that the seats at the front were reserved for white passengers.

Multiple Choice

What animal did the USSR send into space?

• cat

• monkey

• rabbit

• dog

Multiple Choice

Sputnik travelled into space at a speed of 29000 km per hour

What is this number in standard form (Scientific Notation)

• $2.9\times10^4$

• $29\times10^3$
  

• $2.9\times10000$
  

• $29\times1000$
  

Multiple Choice

Geometry refers to the study of...

• Fractions, Decimals, Percentages

• Mean, Median, Mode

• Algebra, Equations, Expressions

• Shapes, Angles, Positions

Vocabulary

ALGORITHM [ al-guh-rith-uhm ]

In Mathematics, a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps.

Example: To expand brackets multiply the term outside the brackets by each term inside the brackets.

 $2\left(x+3\right)\ \rightarrow\ 2x+6$  

Multiple Choice

Expand

 $3\left(x+5\right)$  

•  $3x+15$  
  

•  $3x+5$  

•  $8x$  
  

Multiple Choice

Expand

 $x\left(x+5\right)$  

•  $2x+5x$  
  

•  $x^2+5x$  

•  $x^2+5$  
  

Multiple Select

Katherine loves a challenge; 

Can you select ALL options that equal 10?

•  $\left(3^2-4\right)\times2$  

•  $8-3\times2$  

•  $\frac{10^2-\left(6+4\right)}{9}$  

•  $\left(10+10+10+10+10\right)\div5\times0$  

Vocabulary

TRAJECTORY [ truh-jek-tuh-ree]

The curve described by a projectile/rocket in its flight.

Multiple Choice

Velocity is the speed something moves in one direction.

Speed is calculated by DISTANCE  $\div$  TIME

A car travels 300m in 20 seconds. What is its speed?

• Speed = 6000 m/s

• Speed = 15 m/s

• Speed = 150 m/s

• Speed = 600 m/s

Multiple Choice

Who was the first man in space?

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gagarin

• John Glenn

Multiple Choice

How many multiplications can the IBM do per second?

• 24

• 240

• 2400

• 24000

Multiple Select

Select all the multiplications that give an answer 

between 40 and 50

•  $2\times3\times4$  

•  $5\times8\times2$  

•  $7\times7\times1$  

•  $3\times3\times5$  

"We all pee the same colour!"

All 7,530,000,000 human beings on Earth pee the same colour. 

We all have hearts, brains, blood and bladders.

Multiple Choice

What was the name of Alan Shepard's Space Craft?

• Freedom 5

• Freedom 6

• Freedom 7

• Freedom 8

Multiple Choice

The Liberty Bell Capsule sank 15000feet below sea level
 $1\ foot\approx30cm$  

How many metres below sea level was the Liberty Bell?

• 450000m

• 4500m

• 30000m

• 3000m

Vocabulary

ELLIPTICAL [ ih-lip-ti-kuhl ]

An elliptical orbit is the revolving of one object around another in an oval-shaped path called an ellipse. 

Multiple Choice

The rocket travels at a speed of 17544mph

How far will it travel in 2 hours?

• 24988m

• 35088m

• 27544m

• 32088m

Multiple Choice

What is the ancient technique they use to solve the Mathematical problem?

• Pythagoras Theorem

• Sieve of Eratosthenes

• Euler's Method

Euler's Method

The most basic method for numerical integration of ordinary differential equations.

Multiple Choice

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gagarin

• John Glenn

Multiple Choice

Katherine needed to verify coordinates before John Glenn would agree to take off.

Can you identify the coordinates of point A?

• (-3,2)

• (3,-2)

• (3,2)

• (-3,-2)

Multiple Choice

Katherine needed to verify coordinates before John Glenn would agree to take off.

Can you identify the coordinates of point B?

• (1,4)

• (-1,4)

• (1,-4)

• (-1,-4)

Open Ended

In your own words.

What went wrong with Friendship 7?

Multiple Choice

What year did NASA successfully make it to the moon?

• 1968

• 1969

• 1970

• 1971

Katherine Johnson

went on to perform calculations for the Apollo II mission to the moon and the Space Shuttle.

In 2016, NASA dedicated the Katherine G.Johnson Computational Building in honor of her groundbreaking work in space travel.

Katherine Johnson

At age 97, Katherine was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom... and celebrated her 56th anniversary with Jim Johnson.

Mary Jackson

became NASA's and America's first female African-American aeronautical engineer.

In 1979 she was appointed Langley's Women's Program Manager where she fought to advance women of all colours.

Dorothy Vaughan

became NASA's first African-American Supervisor.

As a Fortran specialist, on the frontier of electronic computing, she was regarded as one of the most brilliant minds at NASA.

Fill in the Blanks

How old was Katherine Johnson when she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Multiple Choice

What type of Engineer was Mary Jackson?

• Mechanical

• Aeronautical

• Electrical

• Chemical

Open Ended

Tell me something new you have learnt from Hidden Figures

Poll

How do you feel?

• I really enjoyed the interactive lesson learning about Katherine, Mary and Dorothy!

  
  

  I'd love more lessons like this in the future :)

• The film was a little too long, I'd have preferred to have more breaks and discussions.

• I was a little distracted by the Quizizz, I'd have preferred to focus on the film only.