Here's a good one from Wired Magazine, back in August of this year."The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is a self-proclaimed math advocate for girls who might otherwise shy away from a subject that Barbie once famously described as 'hard.'
McKellar's math book for junior high girls, called Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math and not Break a Nail, will be out Thursday. It has the look and feel of a teen magazine, but puts heavy emphasis on fractions and pre-algebra."
It's great to see celebs encouraging girls in math. The Expanding Your Horizon's conferences have been doing it for 30 years, but this will surely help the message go mainstream in a bigger way.
