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By: Genelle Grabowski

Math 308

Katherine Johnson

1918

1918

  • Born August 26, 1918
  • White Sulphur Spring, West Virginia
  • Father --> Joshua Mckinley Coleman
  • Mother --> Joylette Roberta Lowe
  • 3 older siblings:
  • Horace
  • Margaret
  • Charles
  • Absolutely enjoyed counting
  • Loved learning
  • Extremely intelligent
  • Skipped multiple grades

What was she like as a child?

1928

  • Parents determined to give their children an education
  • She entered high school when she was only TEN YEARS OLD

1928

  • Geometry teacher
  • Influenced Katherine
  • Encouraged her and taught her to love her subject

Angie Turner King

  • Walked her home
  • Reason Katherine became interested in astronomy

School Principal

1932

  • Enrolled into college when she 15 years old
  • West Virginia State University

1932

  • One of her math teachers
  • Was her family
  • Told her to major into mathematics

James Carmichael Evans

  • 3rd African American to earn his PhD
  • Spotted her research potential
  • Prepared her to be research mathematician

William Waldron Schieffelin

1937

  • Graduated from college when she was 18
  • Bachelor in Mathematics and French
  • Took a teaching job
  • Face regular discrimination

1937

1939

  • West Virginia decided to integrate graduate schools
  • Married James Francis Goble at 21
  • Had three daughters
  • Went back to teaching

1939

1952

  • At 34 years old Katherine she was informed about NACA hring
  • Moved to Newport News, Virginia

1952

1953-1956

1953

  • Got the job at NACA
  • Eventually got assigned to Flight Research Division

1956

  • Husband passed away

1953-1956

1957

  • Soviet satellite Sputnik launched
  • Provided some math for the 1958 document Notes on Space Technology

1957

1958

  • NACA --> NASA
  • Desegregation
  • Gender inequality

1958

1959

  • Married her second husband James A Johnson

1959

1960

  • Co authored with Ted Skopinski on a report
  • Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite over a Selected Earth Position

1960

1962

  • United States wanted people on the moon
  • Used geometry for space travel
  • Contributed to John Glenn's orbital mission
  • Her math was used to send astronauts to the Moon

1962

1986

  • Retired from NASA

1986

2015 & 2017

November 16, 2015

  • Presidental Medal of Freedom

January 6, 2017

  • Hidden Figures was released

2015-2017

2020

  • Died February 24, 2020

2020

Activity

  • Reflects Katherine's math time line
  • Early age of counting
  • Probability
  • High school & College
  • Geometry
  • NASA
  • Trigonometry

Activity

1) The United States has 17 space ships. There are 4 blue space ships, 8 red space ships, and 5 white space ships. A space ships is picked randomly from a line up. What is the probability of picking:

a) a blue space ship

b) a red space ship

c) a white space ship

Probability

Solution

Geometry

2) A 100 ft ladder is leaning against the door of the rocket that is 120 ft tall.

*Note: the door is half the length of rocket

a) Draw a diagram (do not draw the engine of the rocket)

b) What is the distance from the foot of the ladder to the base of the rocket?

Solutions

3) Stars Sirius, Luna, and Nova make up triangle ACB

Trigonometry

a) Find angle C

b) Find the length of b

c) Find the length of a

Solutions

References

References

  • https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography
  • https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Johnson_Katherine/
  • https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4
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