Insted follows NASA’s example of exploring Space Through Math. We believe math will help students in grades 7-12 understand and be interested in Mathematics. Interest in space exploration can help students become more interested in math concepts and how math helps in designing many things for NASA, including spacewalks.
At Insted, we have a special math course that exposes students to how NASA uses math in space.
Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician, nicknamed ‘the computer’ and calculated the details of the flight path the Apollo spacecraft would take from Earth to the moon. atherine Johnson received many awards and we are honored to teach some of the fundamental theories she used to
JWST shows that in Constellation Aquarius, TRAPPIST-1b appears to have a little-to-no atmosphere. Astronomer Bernard Carr noted that this could be due to the existence of primordial black holes which predate the Big
This photo shows Electra, NASA’s supercomputer, which is in research; and sometimes in research with Google. It is a petascale supercomputer; petascale computers perform one quadrillion – that’s one million billion –
