Fixing the Math Suckage

I have repeatedly raged against our human failings with respect to all things mathematical and probabilistic (examples are here, here, here, here, here and here).  Therefore, I was delighted to see Danica McKellar (best known for playing Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, but also featured on favorite shows such as The West Wing and The Big Bang Theory as well as being a math whiz from UCLA) at this past week-end’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to promote various methods to help us (and particularly young women) to improve at math.  She was encouraging, engaging and even frequently insightful.  Danica (or at least Winnie Cooper) is also featured in The New Yorker today.  You can check out her books here. I encourage you to do so, especially if you are a young woman or have any young women in your life.  The odds are very good that you will be glad you did.

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