“Wonder Years” Actress Visits Decatur High To Talk About Math

Decatur Metro | April 20, 2011

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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9 Responses to ““Wonder Years” Actress Visits Decatur High To Talk About Math”

  1. CSD Mom says:
    April 20, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    I’m pretty sure that classroom is actually the dance studio in the new athletics/fine arts building.

  2. lumpintheroad says:
    April 20, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    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

  3. Joe says:
    April 20, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    Oh winnie cooper Super hot and super smart. Reminds me of my wife.

    • lumpintheroad says:
      April 21, 2011 at 11:05 am

      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.

      • Joe says:
        April 25, 2011 at 10:38 am

        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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    April 20, 2011 at 7:03 pm

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  5. unclecharlie says:
    April 20, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    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.