Black Mathematicians EPIC
Authored by Brianne Daye
Mathematics
5th - 8th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician was a aerospace engineer with a dual degree in math and physical science. NASA renamed their headquarters after this person.
Mary Jackson
Euphemia Haynes
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid
Dorothy Vaughan
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician was a teacher. They taught at the University of Oregon, Wayne State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. They wrote many books and papers about probability theory.
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid
David Blackwell
Elbert Frank Cox
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
Tags
CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician was the first African American to receive a doctorate in Mathematics and received the medal Pro Ecclesiae et Pontifice.
Euphemia Haynes
Mary Jackson
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician played in the NFL. Their field was Numerical Linear Algebra. This mathematician has a PhD in Mathematics.
John Urschel
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid
David Blackwell
Elbert Frank Cox
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician worked as a computer programmer and was the first African American manager at the NACA. Later they joined NASA (originally NACA) calculating wind tunnel and flight data.
Dorothy Vaughan
Fern Hunt
Valerie Thomas
Marjorie Lee Browne
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician taught themselves how to read. They went to the University of Illinois at the age of 16. This mathematician was the chairman for the department of statistics.
David Blackwell
Elbert Frank Cox
Fern Hunt
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
Tags
CCSS.3.MD.B.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This mathematician was enrolled in the mathematics program at the University of Cornell. They were the first African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics.
Elbert Frank Cox
Fern Hunt
Valerie Thomas
Marjorie Lee Browne
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.5
CCSS.RI.6.5
CCSS.RI.7.5
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.4.5
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