Dr Jessica Rogers is a Aboriginal Australian. She is also a leader in indigenous education. She grew up in Queensland, Australia. When when she had a baby while she was still at high school, it seemed like her education and grade would suffer badly. However, Jessa not only completed her high school education, but after that she went to University and completed several degrees, including a PhD which means that instead she is now called Dr Rogers!
Dr Jessa Rogers became the first school principal and youngest Aboriginal principal in Australia. At a school in far north Queensland for young indigenous mums and their babies like her. For her work on improving indigenous education in Australia, she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award in 2010, has gone on to win many more awards and write several novels and books.
The Summer Learning Journey programme has asked us, as on one of our tasks to calculate how old she was when she was awarded the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. We where given the date of when she was born and the date of when she was awarded the award.
Birth date - 7th April 1985
Awarded the NAIDOC - 9th July 2010
Here's how I worked out how old she was. . .
I started with 1985 and added 15 to make it the year 2000, after that I added the 10 to make it to 201 my answer was 25 years old. In the end my final answer was . . .
25 years, 3 months, and 2 days.
Kia Ora Hayley,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post on Doctor Jessica Rodgers, I learnt a lot about her from the information that you have written down - which is really cool!
I noticed that you attempted to work out the age of Doctor Jessica Rodgers when she won the NAIDOC youth award, you were so close!
Finding the difference between 1985 and 2000 was a very good place to start, and then great job adding the additional 10 years on top.
The difference between the 7th of April 2010 and the 9th of July 2010 was a bit trickier to figure out!
If you work out how many months are between those 2 dates then it will be easy! There are 3 months between the 7th of April and the 7th of July, this means that there are only 2 more extra days to bring the date upto the 9th of July!
This brings the answer to a grand total of 25years, 3 months and 2 days.
You were very close to getting the correct answer and you should be very proud of yourself for getting there, it was a pretty hard question!
Ngā mihi nui
Charlotte
Summer Learning Journey
Kia Ora Charlotte,
ReplyDeleteThanks for replying on my blog post. Had you ever heard about Dr Jessa Rogers before this???
Have a GREAT day!!!
Happy holidays and New Year!!!
Hayley