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Margaret and the Moon : the computer scientist who saved the first lunar landing / Dean Robbins ; illustrated by Lucy Knisley.
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. Dean Robbins and Lucy Knisley deliver a lovely portrayal of a pioneer in her field who never stopped reaching for the stars.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399551857
- ISBN: 0399551859
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition: First hardback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 630L Lexile Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 81 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.7 0.5 189739. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Trails Regional-Corder | J B Ha (Text) | 220474008+ | Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Trails Regional-Waverly | J B Ha (Text) | 2204740071 | Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Cape Girardeau Public Library | HAM (Text) | 33042004526003 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
| Caruthersville Public Library | J 629.45 ROB (Text) | 38417100420134 | Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | E B HAM 2017 (Text) | 0002205030717 | Easy Biography | Checked out | 05/03/2024 |
| Crawford County Library-Recklein Memorial-Cuba | J629.45 ROB (Text) | 33431000581957 | J Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Douglas County Public Library | JB HAMILTON (Text) | 35633000031546 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Northwest | JBIO HAMILTON (Text) | 30051050043584 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
| Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | EB HAMILTON (Text) | 2004066091 | Early Biographies | Available | - |
| Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | EB HAMILTON (Text) | 2004081996 | Early Biographies | Available | - |
