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This selection traces the development of Margaret Hamilton from an intellectually curious and multitalented schoolgirl to a computer coding pioneer and the heroine of the Apollo 11 mission. Includes Author’s Note, Bibliography, Additional Reading, Photos.
Genres
Lexile
630L
Publication
Knopf Books for Young Readers (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 40 pages
Description
Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft's computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed.
Awards
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Nominee — 2020)
Tofte/Wright Children's Literature Award (Honorable Mention — 2017)
Illinois Reads (3-5 — 2018)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2017-05-16
Pages
40
Physical description
40 p.; 11.31 inches
ISBN
0399551859 / 9780399551857
DDC/MDS
629.45 |