Math Doesn’t Suck

Danica McKellar of The Wonder Years writes a math book targeted toward junior high girls. “If I’m teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion — that they can use math as a part of that — you think that’s me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it’s me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with? … In the introduction and other places in the book, I reinforce the idea it’s OK to be girly. It’s fun to be girly and being smart is part of who you want to be. ” I very much respect her for being so unabashedly brazen about this topic. Because I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to listen to someone tell me how strange it is that I majored in computer science but love shopping, sewing and Domino magazine.