{"id":2288,"date":"2020-12-16T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2020-12-16T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:45:16","slug":"mathematician-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/2020\/12\/16\/mathematician-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We learned about Katherine Johnson, who worked for NASA.\u00a0 She was a mathematician who devolved a calculation that enabled Apollo 11 to orbit the earth and land on the moon.\u00a0 This was made even more difficult for her as she was a black woman.\u00a0 She was amazing.<\/p>\n

We made our rockets and modified the straws to enable them to fly. It was quite tricky.\u00a0 We took them outside to test them.<\/p>\n

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We learned about Katherine Johnson, who worked for NASA.\u00a0 She was a mathematician who devolved a calculation that enabled Apollo 11 to orbit the earth and land on the moon.\u00a0 This was made even more difficult for her as she was a black woman.\u00a0 She was amazing. We made our rockets and modified the straws … Continue reading Mathematician Of The Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-fly-me-to-the-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}