Danica McKellar, star of The Wonder Years and boyhood crush to millions, earned a degree in Math, summa cum laude, at UCLA, and has famously gone on to try to make math (or ’maths’, as we call it in the UK) more approachable for young girls, with books like Math Doesn’t Suck.
Danica is now pushing her new book Kiss My Math which, despite the double-entendre of the title, seems pretty serious about encouraging confidence in ‘pre-algebra’ specificially and math in general amongst girls, and teaching useful mathematical tricks along the way.
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Here, Danica talks about the book on the US Today show, demonstrating commutative and distributive properties of numbers, both features of pre-algebra, and both covered extensively in Math-Whizz topics from grade 3 and up.
We’ve tried our best to make math fun, and the likes of Winnie Danica McKellar can only help make math cool!