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Actress/Mathematician Danica McKellar s Book

The notions that " girls can not do mathematics ", " math sucks " and " which may not be legal if you are intelligent " are pernicious myths that hurt women , as well as society in general. Danica McKellar of the new book, Math " Not Suck " is best to explode to all those generalizations.
McKellar, better known as Winnie " " in the eighties TV show " The Wonder Years & 39; " is not only a respected actress of work, but Directed a mathematician as well. His new book, Math " Not Suck ", was written to help middle-school age girls learn math without adversely affecting its popularity.
" I want to see girls embrace mathematics that never thought it could , and that they understand the importance of developing a strong spirit. Math is a fabulous mind strengthener - it is like going to the gym for your brain! " Said actress / mathematical Danica McKellar in an interview with the epidemiologist and blogger Tara C. Smith.
Ms. McKellar is also know their role in " Inspector Mom ", " The West Wing ", " How I Met Your Mother ", " Walker, Texas Ranger & ; quot;, " Babylon5 " and " " NCIS, as well as having done voices Video games, as " X-Men Legends ".
Although better understand its role as co-star and love interest for dog-Fred Savage& 39;s character as " Kevin " the popular " The Wonder Years " sitcom on growing smack Amid the baby - boom years, Ms. McKellar understandably, do not want to be pigeonholed as " that child actress that old television series ".
After the series ended, when other actresses could have decided to continue his career working in the expense of their education, McKellar enrolled in UCLA, where he later attained his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics, summa cum laude. She has spoken at Rutgers University & 39; s Statistical Mechanics biannual conference, and it was presented in the Science section of the NY Times.
In mathematical trivia, it is one of the only people in the world to have a finite number Erdos-Bacon, which is a person of the professional degree of separation between the mathematician Paul Erdos and actor Kevin Bacon.
Helping young women escape the " & 39; t girls-can-do-math " stereotype is a passion for McKellar. It not only encourages them learn mathematics to improve their minds, but it helps to realize that they can still be as feminine as they want to be smart. It is still painful to have to say that, in the twenty-first century, but it has not been smart to make him a cool.
In a time when many actresses are receiving advertising of a scandal after another, Ms. McKellar is a unique Baliza in a sea of negative female role models. She even got a chance to talk to the Congress on mathematics and education in American middle school and high schools.
Women always suffered from a kind of bias in mathematics, and McKellar wants to do something about it. Besides serving as a model for work as an actress, and as a mathematician, which is co-author of the Chayes-" McKellar-Winn theorem " (concerning mathematical physics), it helps to raise funds for children cancer at St. & 39; S Jude Children Research Hospital, tutors in math on your site, and is the spokesman for national Math-a-Thon.
Don & 39; t think it tries to create female nerds, though. Ms. McKellar also made some sexy but tasteful, the modeling that is the evidence that the girls can be fascinating and popular, and smart. This seems like an entirely new take " A Beautiful Mind ".
The author of this article, Brian Foley (aka Professor " Homunculus ") is the creator of the web and manager and MathMojo The Chronicles Math Mojo. He writes about the book " Math Not Suck ", hishttp: / / www.squidoo.com / mathdoesntsuck " > Squidoo lens.