Women Mathematicians
First Women of Color to Work at NASA
What is Mary Jackson
Name all of the main three women in this film
What is Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan.
What does Bill Gates, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Winkler all have in common?
(Besides they're all men)
What is Anxiety
A stereotype can be negative AND positive
True or False?
What is True
First person to use a computer to design a ship.
What is Raye Montague
Who was this film by?
What is Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder.
If you are math anxious, you are likely to make you students or your own children math anxious.
True or False?
What is True
"Girls suck at math."
"Women belong in the kitchen."
"Women don't deserve the same pay."
What group are all of these stereotyping?
What is Women/Females
_______ flew her only space mission from September 12 to 20, 1992.
What is Mae Jemison
What did Dorothy Vaughan fight for
Nearly 1 in __ U.S. adults report severe math anxiety.
What is 5
One that has a fear of doing something that would confirm a negative stereotype
What is Stereotype Threat
Was in the mission control from the Apollo 13 mission (NASA)
What is Frances "Poppy" Northcutt
When Katherine Johnson had to run to get NASA the coordinates to get John Glenn back to earth, who came to let her back into the control room after the door was shut on her face?
What is Al Harrison
Name all 4 ways math anxiety can be healed.
What is 1. Make it a part of your life, 2. Make it fun, 3. Work with others, 4. Use anxiety reducing strategies
Name 3 ways we can diminish stereotypes
What is 1. Educate ourselves, 2. Advertisement (No more "Girls" and "Boys" specified toys, 3. Experience (Meeting new people that contradict a stereotype)
Who said, "The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight."
What is Mary Everest Boole
How did Katherine figure out what the classified information covered in marker said after Paul handed her a binder full of papers?
What is She held the papers up to the light so she could see the typed words through the marker.