Grace Hopper- Queen of Computer Code
Authored by Inge Ginsburg
English
2nd - 3rd Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Grace Hopper checked over her computer code line by line to see if she made any mistakes. She found that she had written that same code before, over and over again. Grace decided to figure out a way to
make the computer do the boring work for her.
ignore boring tasks.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When Grace was a child, she decided to read the directions for how to build a dollhouse made of stone. There were no stairs for her dolls to reach the top floor, so she built ...
a trampoline.
an elevator.
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CCSS.RI.4.1
CCSS.RI.5.1
CCSS.RL.4.1
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.6.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
As smart as Grace was, she failed Latin so she couldn't go to college right away.
True
False
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RF.3.4C
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Grace loved teaching, but America was at war and needed the best mathematicians to design weapons. Grace tried to join the Navy, but she couldn't because...
she was too young.
she was too old and too skinny. She was 36 and weighed 105 pounds.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.1.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Grace finally talked the Navy into letting her join. She was assigned to write programs for one of the first computers. How did she learn to program?
She learned to do it on her own.
She went to computer programming classes.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
One day the computer stopped working. Grace was always careful with her code, so she thought it was a prank. What was wrong with the computer?
The janitor had unplugged it when he was mopping.
A moth had gotten trapped inside.
Someone had accidentally tipped it over.
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RF.3.4C
CCSS.RF.2.4C
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Grace retired from the Navy for the second time when she was 80. What does "retired" mean?
Took a vacation.
To have stopped working permanently, usually because of age.
Rested for a few weeks.
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.4.4
CCSS.RI.1.4
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