Actress-Mathematician Danica McKellar's Book "Math Doesn't Suck" Helps Girls Appreciate Their Minds

The notions that "girls can't do math," "math sucks," and "you can't be cool if you're smart" are pernicious myths that hurt women as well as community in general. The book, "Math Doesn't Suck" does it's best to explode all of those generalizations.

Danica McKellar, best known as "Winnie" on the eighties Tv show "The Wonder Years'" is not only a respected working actress, but an accomplished mathematician as well. Her new book, "Math Doesn't Suck," was written to help middle-school age girls learn math without negatively affecting their popularity.

"I want to see girls embrace math who never view they could, and for them to understand the significance of developing a strong mind. Math is a astonishing mind strengthener - it's like going to the gym, for your brain!" said actress/mathematician Danica McKellar in an interview with epidemiologist and blogger Tara C. Smith.

Actress-Mathematician Danica McKellar's Book "Math Doesn't Suck" Helps Girls Appreciate Their Minds

Ms. McKellar is also know for her roles in "Inspector Mom," "The West Wing," "How I Met Your Mother," "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Babylon5," and "Ncis," as well as having done voices on video games, like "X-Men Legends."

In mathematical trivia, she is one of the only habitancy in the world to have a finite ErdQs-Bacon number, which is a person's degree of pro divorce in the middle of the mathematician Paul ErdQs and the actor Kevin Bacon.

Women have always suffered from a gender-bias in math, and McKellar wants try to do something about it. Also serving as a role model as a working actress, and as a mathematician who has co-authored the "Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem" (concerning mathematical physics), she helps to raise money for children with cancer at St.Jude Children's explore Hospital, tutors in math on her website, and is the national spokesperson for Math-a-Thon.

Don't think she's trying to creating female nerds, though. Central to her book's message is that girls can be glamorous and popular, as well as smart. This seems like an entirely new take on "A gorgeous Mind."

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