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National Museum of American History: Teaching Math & Science in Age of Sputnik

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Why did the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik throw the fields of mathematics and science into tremendous demand in the United States? Find the many ways this revolutionary event impacted children from the 1950s to become the mathematicians and scientists of today. This site shines a wonderful light into the history of our math and sciences.

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first satellite in space, science education, space race, sputnik 1, cold war, russian space program, national museum of american history, smithsonian, smithsonian institution, soviet space program, satellite, space program, sputnik i
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)