Counting on Kathrine

Why couldn't Kathrine enter a public high school?

• Her town's high school didn't accept black students

• She was too young

• She wasn't smart enough

What was Kathrine's favorite subject in school?

• History

• Art

• Math

How did Kathrine become a mathematician?

• New laws formed. They allowed black women to be mathematicians

• NACA began hiring new employees, included black women, to be mathematicians

• She passed a 5 hour long test

What country did America battle in the "space race"?

• The Soviet Union

• Germany

• Canada

Sending the rocket ship into space is like....

• Throwing a ball in the air

• Hitting a baseball bat

• Singing really loudly

What was Project Mercury?

• A Russian project to send Russians to the moon

• A mission to land on Mars

• A new program to send the first Americans into space

Kathrine loved to count

• True

• False

Kathrine skipped three whole grades

• True

• False

History was Kathrine's favorite subject

• True

• False

Project Apollo send Americans to Mars

• True

• False