You can use this book in the classroom to show students how math connects to real life and why sticking with something matters. It‘s also good for talking about strong role models and encouraging kids, especially girls, to feel confident in math.
You can use this book in the classroom to show students how math connects to real life and why sticking with something matters. It‘s also good for talking about strong role models and encouraging kids, especially girls, to feel confident in math.
“Katherine yearned to know as much as she could about numbers, about the universe – about everything!”
This would be a good supplement for students when they are doing a research project in your classroom.
pickThis book presented information about an inspiring lady in history in an engaging way, perfect for elementary age. The book showcased Katherines interest and success in math which lead her to doing great things for NASA.
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Today‘s haiku is inspired by this picture of the moon I took on Monday night. A waxing crescent moon signifies new beginnings, setting intentions & growth. 🌙
Waxing crescent moon
Glowing softly in the night
New beginnings bloom
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so-soThe good: there is some interesting information about the Soviet space programme.
The bad: the author is deeply, deeply biased against the Soviets. He can't admit that they ever did a single thing right.
Also, he snidely dismisses Wally Funk's space flight in a paragraph in which he gets the facts wrong. He claims she was below the threshold (the Kármán line, 100km), but Blue Origin peaked at 107 and WAS above the Kármán line.
This... is very anti-Russian, in a way that feels like being anti-Russian is a principle for him. Like I get their space programme was an omnishambles, but there's just this air of total contempt about it that doesn't feel limited to hatred of incompetence. Not sure if I will finish it.
pickThanks to @Chelsea.Poole for this excellent #AuldLangSpyne recommendation: a brief but deep book about six astro/cosmonauts from various countries circling the globe together in 24 hours. It‘s a wonderful exploration of bridging cultural differences, with awareness of how connected we are on this tiny planet. Harvey poetically explores big issues and personal pain, in the life of one astronaut and an incident on Earth that none were connected to.
panI probably should have given up on this, but it‘s so short so I just kept speeding up the narration 🤷♀️ I think I just have to leave the Booker winners alone, they never seem to resonate with me, no matter how I try. In this one, yay space- but it‘s completely observational and then reflective and has zero plot which I just can‘t do without it seems. But it did win the Booker and many readers do like this, so don‘t just take it from me!
Maybe we‘re the new dinosaurs and need to watch out, but then maybe against all the odds we‘ll migrate to Mars, we will start a colony of gentle preservers, people who want to keep the red planet red. We‘ll devise a Planetary flag, because that‘s something we lacked on Earth, and we wonder if that‘s why it all fell apart. And we‘ll look back at the faint dot of blue that is our old Earth and will say, “Do you remember?” “Have you heard the tales?”
