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2. List of African-American mathematicians - Wikipedia

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   We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. University of Texas Press. [214] Shetterly, Margot Lee (2016). Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. [1] Walker, Erica N (2014). Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence ...

3. Ruby Bridges - Wikipedia

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   Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. [1][2][3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All ...

4. List of African-American inventors and scientists - Wikipedia

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   Awarded the first Presidential Endowed Chair at Clemson University in honor of his accomplishments Gipson, Mack: 1931–1995 Geologist: First Black man to receive a Ph.D. in Geology Goode, Sarah E. 1855–1905 Inventor Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States [81 ...

5. McGuffey Readers - Wikipedia

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   Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.

6. Pattern Blocks - Wikipedia

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   Pattern Blocks are a set of mathematical manipulatives developed in the 1960s. The six shapes are both a play resource and a tool for learning in mathematics, which serve to develop spatial reasoning skills that are fundamental to the learning of mathematics. Among other things, they allow children to see how shapes can be composed and ...

7. Racial achievement gap in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The trends in the Hispanic-white gaps are especially interesting because of the rapid narrowing that occurs between kindergarten and first grade. Specifically, the estimated math gap declines from 0.77 to 0.56 standard deviations, and the estimated reading gap from 0.52 to 0.29 in the roughly 18 months between the fall of kindergarten and the ...