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The Wonder Years' Danica McKellar Tells Brooklyn To "Kiss My Math"

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Red-headed bookworm
05/02/09

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Math, math, math, I love you. Going back to school for an Engineering degree with a Statistics minor. I've always loved math. Well, actually, I loved all school subjects. I'm an all around geek. :) I have a Calculus II final next week. Yay! Differential equations and integrals and Lagrange multipliers!
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Jack_Burton
05/01/09

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This is stuff that is universal. The truth is, math is simply a tool, and it can be used for everything from becoming a savvier shopper to adjusting cookie recipes.

Umm, yeah... And calculating IPv4 subnets. And Using statistics to support poll data. And getting a better interest terms on car financing...

Variety is a pretty descriptive term... Some articles are OK, and some are completely inane.
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Her Grace
05/01/09

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I like math, and have very little aptitude for it. This is partially due to my tendency to transpose numbers (and letters, but it fucks up an equation a whole lot faster than a sentence, you know? And there's always spell-check). On the other hand, I think algebraically anyway (I was surprised it had to be introduced as a concept in school, as I thought that was how we were all doing our problems in our heads) and can do easy maths in my head--the nurses have me as their walking bmi calculator at work, which is long and tedious but simple.

Calculus is a big fat no.
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HuckleberryFriend
05/01/09

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Ok Danica, but will it get me your hair? I will do algebra for that!
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/01/09

@HuckleberryFriend: This. This is my point. I aced every Regents and AP calculus but I will never ever EVER look like that in profile.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/01/09

@HuckleberryFriend: And yes, I am sad that after all these years, Oprah, Hillary, and Michelle, that would still appear to be the point.

I mean, Carla v. Letizia?

*bursts into tears*
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HuckleberryFriend
05/01/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: *hands Rooo a glass of wine*
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tomatoheart
05/01/09

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Remember that spoof boyband 2gether?
They had this awesome song called U+Me=Us (Calculus) *cough*

+ Watch video

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tomatoheart
05/01/09

@tomatoheart: 2ge+her actually....chris farley's brother was in it!
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mbot says Spock yeah!
05/01/09

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Math was not my favorite school subject by any means, but a few years post-college when I had to re-take calculus to satisfy a grad school requirement, I found myself really enjoying it for once. It completely caught me by surprise. But somehow now, I am kind of fond of the symmetry of equations, the language of numbers... So strange coming from an English nerd!

Also, as much as I love her efforts to make math more appealing to girls, I hate that her book covers look like Seventeen. I understand why, but I hate that it had to be that way.
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PhillyLass
05/01/09

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She's so awesome. Can we make her an honorary Jezzie?
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/01/09

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I once dated a math major and in hindsight, he was very socially awkward and rather mean.

Or I could be just jealous because I always excelled in creative writing and English and sucked at math. Team Azaz FTW!
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PurpleTowels
05/01/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: I always sided with Azaz. That letters market seemed delicious.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
05/01/09

@PurpleTowels: Agreed. Dictionopolis looked like a lively, fun place while The Kingdom of Numbers seemed kinda lonely.
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PurpleTowels
05/01/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: Yup. And subtraction stew? I like food that makes me full.
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vamusical
05/01/09

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Math really does solve social problems. I find my ball-busting abilities to be at their BEST when I can incorporate economic data and hockey stats that make pompous guys I'm talking to look like morons.
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Scout
05/01/09

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Math DOES suck!!

But, I greatly appreciate Danica's efforts to makes it 1) suck less AND 2) remove the common misperception that Girls can't even do math.
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YourScreenplaySucks
05/01/09

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I was a Mathlete. See, I'm comfortable admitting that because it's online & none of you can reach through the computer screen, give me an atomic wedgie, & shove me in a locker.
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WaltzingMatilda
05/01/09

@Your Screenplay Sucks: It's cool. I was a huge math geek. Loved calc. And physics. I even started college as a physics major. Didn't last more than two weeks. :) Come rest your be-wedgied ass next to mine on this here bench.
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Shamrockette
05/01/09

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But that doesn't really explain why I'm fairly decent at math, but I suck socially...

Am I an anomaly?
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
05/01/09

@Shamrockette is stickin' to it!: No, bb. You're a polynomial.
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SmaženýSýr
05/01/09

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So true. But beware that mathematicians can easily give people who didn't do set theory in first grade a massive inferiority complex. But yes, numbers FTW.
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mbot says Spock yeah!
05/01/09

@SmaženýSýr: Smazeny syr! FRIENDING YOU! And raising you a zmrzlina!
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applejuice
05/01/09

In reply to Kiss Her Math
1 me + 2 friends + 1 giant pile of junk food + 1 couch + trachy tv = good times for all

Teh maths - I'm usin' dem four my social situations!

Seriously though, I really like how she has made math for girls her "thing". It is worthwhile and I commend her for it.

Now where's my carrot cake?
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WaltzingMatilda
05/01/09

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It's true! Math helped me solve teenage social problems like: How many more cases of beer are necessary to keep my guests from leaving my place to go to a cooler party? At what speed do I have to drive home in order to make my curfew? Or how many years do I have to wait before I can have sex with my much older boyfriend so that it isn't a crime? Thanks, Math!
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