Dr. Jones
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When I first started at RCA in Mr. Clark’s math class, it was hard. He would have us do a<br />
problem in our heads instead of writing it out. We had a time limit to work out problems so I had<br />
to get use to it that. I did not really understand why I was doing certain things I just knew we<br />
were in this situation, fifth grade. So when it came to figuring out a problem I would just figure it<br />
out while he was either writing it on the board or talking. So when he would ask a person to<br />
work out the problem, I would be ready to respond with the correct answer.<br />
When I start Mrs. Wallace‘s class, she had a lot of word problems and I felt like some of the<br />
information was not needed but it was good practice. she would teach us the strategies that<br />
would only work in certain situations and I would always think,”Why would you teach us to use<br />
something that does not work all the time?” I like the games that she had like Attack. These<br />
were games that she made for us. It was a math game that we played in teams. They were<br />
really fun and a good way to practice math. However, when it came time to her take tests and<br />
her quizzes, it was sometimes hard for me to remember all the strategies and how to use them<br />
and for what situations they work in and which strategies work all the time and the ones that did<br />
not.<br />
In <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Jones</strong> class, I feel like I am doing better because she teaches us why things happen and<br />
she gives us tricks that work all the time in any situation and instead of having to figure it out in<br />
your head like Mr. Clark’s class. You are able to write it down and it work out with all the time<br />
you need . When it comes to test with <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Jones</strong>, I would say they’re a little bit easier for me<br />
because as long as you study and look over the strategies she gave you and how the concept<br />
works you can get a pretty high grade on the test.<br />
Dorthy Vaughan was born September 20, 1910 in Kansas City. Her family moved to<br />
Morgantown, West Virginia, where she graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925 as her<br />
class valedictorian. Vaughan received a full-tuition scholarship from West Virginia Conference of<br />
the A.M.E. Sunday School Convention.[2] She graduated cum laude at the age of 19 with a B.A.<br />
in mathematics in 1929 from Wilberforce University, a historically black college located in<br />
Wilberforce, Ohio.[3] In 1932 she married Howard Vaughan. Vaughan was very devoted to<br />
family and the church, which would play a huge factor in whether or not she would relocate to
Hampton, Virginia for employment with NACA. As a college cum laude graduate and a teacher<br />
in Mathematics.<br />
In December 1943 she started working for NACA’s West Area Computing unit, a group of<br />
African American female mathematicians who were considered “human computers,” performing<br />
complex computations and analyzing data for aerospace engineers. The West Computers, as<br />
the women were known, provided data that were later essential to the success of the early U.S.<br />
space program. At the time, NACA was segregrated, and black employees were forced to use<br />
separate bathrooms and dining facilities. Despite these conditions, Vaughan was promoted to<br />
lead the West Computers in 1949. She became NACA’s first black supervisor and one of its few<br />
female supervisors.