Counting on Katherine: Criss Cross

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker. Look for hints in the Word Bank. Print the puzzle or use it on your tablet, phone, or computer.

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Across

  • 4. to wonder
  • 6. very exact and careful about small details
  • 8. someone who specializes in math
  • 10. the ability to form pictures or ideas in your mind

Down

  • 1. to send a spacecraft into the sky
  • 2. the force that causes something to fall to the ground or to be attracted to another planet
  • 3. the ability to wait for a long time without becoming upset
  • 5. a ___ school or workplace can only be attended by people by one race
  • 7. using numbers to find an amount or value
  • 9. the amount of physical power with which something moves or hits another thing

Word Bank

imagination
curiosity
segregated
mathematician
precise
force
launch
calculations
patience
gravity