STEM trailblaz r BIOS COMPUTER SCIENTIST JENNIFER REED Lerner Publications Minneapolis
L 1 Chapter pioneered in Growing ST up Betty Jean Jennings attended a one room schoolhouse similar to this one in Point Lookout Missouri MATH STAR etty Jean Jennings was born on a farm in Missouri in 1924 and she had big dreams Her father was a teacher and a farmer Her mother was a homemaker Betty Jean was the sixth of seven children As a young girl Betty Jean dreamed of a 4
r 3 being an independent woman one day She wanted to stand out in the world Betty Jean went to school in a one room schoolhouse Students in the first through eighth grades were taught together Whenever she finished her own work Betty Jean liked to listen to lessons being taught to the upper grades This helped her learn even more Betty Jean especially loved math She was very good at it Her teacher suggested that Betty Jean combine fifth and sixth grade math into one year Betty Jean skipped a grade Betty Jean second row second from left poses with her Stanberry High School classmates for a tenth grade class photo during the 1938 39 school year 2 8 5
