Hidden Figures.

Do you remember the time when you used to play Hide and Seek? Can you spell and pronounce (correctly) the past tense and past participle of these two irregular English verbs? Click on the links below to confirm them,ok ?

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/hide_1

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/seek

Whenever you think of "Hidden Figures", which ideas cross your mind at once? Do you think of Mathematicians and numbers? Do you worry about the accuracy of  Space Projects calculations and their results? How could mathematicians calculate and solve complex problems before the computers' existance ?

Well,if you watch the 20thCentury Fox new production that has already got three nominations for the 2017 Oscar Awards ,you are going to answer all these questions above easily.

After watching the video below, you can click on the other link (below the official trailer of Hidden Figures )to get more information about these three black women : Katherine Johnson (played by Traji P.Henson)Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer)and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monaé)who worked at NASA during the Space Race of 1960s,a period of racial segregation and open bias. According to Margot Lee Sheeterly who wrote the book Hidden Figures,  "These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary." Ms. Sheeeterly's book  "shines light on the inner details of these women's lives and accomplishments."

 http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/bias_1

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/movies/pharrell-williams-making-noise-for-hidden-figures-everywhere.html?_r=0