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Counting On Katherine

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    Today's book is titled "Counting On Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13" by Helaine Becker. Illustrated by Pow Phumiruk.
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  • What did Katherine love to do?
    To count
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  • What was Katherine's favorite  subject in school?
    Math
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  • Why couldn’t Katherine enter a public high school?
    Her town’s high school didn’t accept black students.
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  • How did Katherine become a mathematician?
    NACA began hiring new employees, including black women, to be mathematicians.
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  • What was Project Mercury?
    A new program to send the first American astronauts in space
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  • Sending a rocket ship into space is like...
    Throwing a ball in the air
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  • T/F: History was Katherine’s favorite subject.
    False
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  • T/F: Project Apollo first sent Americans to Mars.
    False
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  • T/F: Katherine saved Apollo 13.
    True
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