“Wonder Years” Actress Visits Decatur High To Talk About Math
Decatur Metro | April 20, 2011If you can get by the awkward “math doesn’t suck” introduction, it’s a decent segment.
h/t: Next Stop….Decatur
If you can get by the awkward “math doesn’t suck” introduction, it’s a decent segment.
h/t: Next Stop….Decatur
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I’m pretty sure that classroom is actually the dance studio in the new athletics/fine arts building.
If you’re a guy of a certain age, like me, you almost certainly still hold a candle for Ms. McKellar. The fact that she has grown into an insanely-hot, incredibly brilliant, well-adjusted woman only serves to fan that flame.
Now I will single-handedly drag this discussion into the gutter by posting this link:
http://www.maxim.com/amg/stuff/girls-of-stuff/38067/danica-mckellar.html
Lump, dude, you are asking for it now.
Probably so. From my wife, at the very least. *ducks book flung at head*
Oh winnie cooper Super hot and super smart. Reminds me of my wife.
All kidding aside, same here. My brilliant wife (earning her masters at Ga. Tech as we speak, after earning her engineering degree there) is the most beautiful, self-assured woman I know (good thing I married her!), so I don’t necessarily need Danica McKellar to tell me that women can be good at math.
If anything, I’m the one who needs help with math aversion. I was an English major for a reason.
Seriously. Being married to a smart + beautiful woman has its perks, and downsides, whenever I make fun of her going to William and Mary at 15 (on a full ride) with the Real Genius jokes (amazing movie btw) i get hit back with, how many presidents / and /or world leaders came from W&M and etc lol.
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What’s unfortunate is that we need cheerleaders to travel around and sell math.
This seems like a common sense approach that has had some success in the UK and Canada:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/a-better-way-to-teach-math/?ref=opinion
http://jumpmath.org/
It is structured to avoid the feeling of failure and fear that kill math for so many people.