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  • Boy this is really stupid, I mean let's get honest her looking that way and Tavis Smiley, do you think anybody is thinking about math and her math skills. Even Tavis is going damn she's smokin!

  • Winny!!!

  • I appreciate what she is trying to do, but really we need to teach children that mathematics is much more than just arithmetic. I wouldn't say that arithmetic excites too many people on its own; only about the same proportion of the population who would be excited to learn only the alphabet, without ever seeing words, sentences, or literature.

  • I have to agree with Danica McKellar with everything that she said with this clip. As a former math teacher, I had to combat with the negative attention that math has today plus other things involving education. If you think about it, to give math a better reputation, provide some real-life examples to interest more people just to have them think more.

  • with a teacher like her all her male student would keep failling the course just for seeing her.lol

  • A great way to develop maths ability is to get a gambling addiction. ( Do not do this or you will be sad 34 year old bearded loser )

  • I became good at math by involving myself with baseball and its endless statistics

  • *Sigh* If I could be a kid again, oh how I would love to have her as my math teacher!

  • What an awesome woman! You have to love a woman who knows her math. On top of that, she's one of the actresses I grew up with a crush on.

  • Growing up, I only had one great Math Teacher. The rest were Bullies. Not that it matters but many of them came from foreign countries and thought that because they were taught a certain way, their students should be taught like that. I remember a friend of mine crying like a baby because she didn't understand how to do the Math Test she was given but the Teacher was a Grade A Beyotch. If she did now what she did then, she would have been fired.

  • Yeah she's hot. She can teach me anything.

  • I would have never thought that she, Danica McKellar, would grow up, and look good as she does. Great legs.

  • she has to write books cause shes not allowed be a teacher... no with legs like tha!

  • Hey Danica!!

    Will you marry me please!!?? lol

  • math just became much more intellectually stimulating to me and i have a advanced engineering and mathematics degree. damn sexy. i love smart girls. 1 sexy lips plus one sexy lips = two sexy lips.

  • Thanx! I love Winnie Cooper:)

  • Not everyone is meant to change the world. SHe's doing what she enjoys with her life. If her passion is "bad movies for cable tv" then more power to her. Don't be disappointed in her, deal with your own life and your abilities. I see you've studied her well enough to know her movie roster... that's what you've chosen to do with your time, huh?

  • Not everyone is meant to change the world. She's doing what she enjoys and there is nothing wrong with that. The 2 books she's written are very helpful to kids, young girls in particular. I think she's a beautiful and intelligent young woman.

  • funny to see tavis get his smiley on... look at him put a finger to his lips as a token gesture of listening, but all he can think is "dang..Winnie!"

  • she is so beautiful.

  • My God, what a babe.

  • This is what I want my wife to be like:beautiful, smart, and sweet!

  • I agree. I do too. lol

  • beauty + brains = perfect combo!

  • Danica, I just want to wish you a Happy Birthday today.

  • Math. Let's see, 1 sexy leg plus 1 sexy leg equals 2 sexy legs.

  • haha.  genius.

  • Danica has really disappointed me. With her abilities, she should do something useful instead of making bad movies for cable TV like "Inspector Mom," "Path of Destruction" and "Heatstroke."

  • Let the girl live her life. Obviously she's a very bright girl. If she decides to spend her time on movies, she should be allowed to do so. She's graduated college and has had a very successful career. I'm proud of her. Not everyone has the guts to go after that they want, but she does.

  • i want her to be my teacher

  • Damn....she's......great......­and sexy too.

  • I am happy she is addressing the math problem

    but i am not sure her text book approach is

    solving the problem.I think students need to

    be exposed to solving problems like making a rocket or working with materials for an artifical arm or hand.

  • yeah, let's have students build rockets without basic math.

  • I think its referent to learning math through applications. Instead of using teaching math with isolated skills building, use math to actually do relavant real-world applications or calculating your intrest instead of doing book problems of detached hypothetical scenarios.

  • Because of Danica, I got an A+ in college math. Not only was it an A in college but it was the first time I EVER got an A math! I strongly recommend her books to anyone, and to anyone who's ever gotten F's in math like I did. Thanks Danica! You have to make DVD's teaching math!

  • mmmmmmmmmm i think math is easy

    i dont know why you say tht is difficult

  • Suddenly i love math more.

  • I...HATE...MATH...But I love me some Whinnie Cooper!

  • When I was a kid and teenager I hated math. As an adult I love it because it is such a challenge and you don't realize how much you use math until you go out into the real world. It can be applied to so many different things unlike most of the other subjects in school. Although, I'm still trying to figure out what the heck a protractor is used for.

  • Hate to bust a hater: Who better to get kids interested in mathematics? You and you're "genius" mentor? Perhaps your elitism and exaggerated sense of importance may be a cause for math and physics to lose potential Godel's and Einsteins. "Genius" has it's place in math; but why not have a high profile and attractive ambassador to draw the next generation of "geniuses"?

  • Hate to bust the mood, but as I mathematician and physicist I think that's selling us short. Everyone bows down to her just because she's pretty and a well-known actress -she can publish a book which is essentially meaningless while true genius (such as my mentor's work) are laughed at, much less published. I am not saying this is because she's a girl (girls do just as well at math as boys). But she obviously is getting special treatment for being a celebrity, and that is the hubris of America.

  • (Apologies: my response is segmented due to YouTube's comment character limit. Also, I've numbered the paragraphs in appropriate order because postings are often misplaced by YouTube. Thanks.:)

    1. But her books, which are written to assist young girls at succeeding in math and to be confident in their abilities, are targeted towards middle-school age girls--not exactly the target audience of your mentor's "genius" work.

  • 2. Don't get me wrong, I'm the first to admit that American culture much too often disdains intellectualism and fetishizes celebrity, and I empathisize with you. However, considering the discrepancies in audience, the parallel between McKellar and your mentor is poor. Further, it is not the lay public who choses to publish or not publish a scientific paper; it is fellow academics who peer-review scholarly journals and accept or deny admissions.

  • 3. As far as McKellar goes, she does have a degree in mathematics and has herself co-authored a published scientific paper while at UCLA.

  • 4. And as far as popular American interest in science goes, well, we know how celebrated vapid celebrity culture can be, but regardless, several scientists (e.g., physicist Brian Greene, biologist Stephen Jay Gould, astrophysist Stephen Hawking, and numerous others) are widely respected and read by the general public.

  • 5. Finally, I would hesitate to brand McKellar's work as "essentially meaningless." Clearly her books have proved a boon to young girls learning mathematics. And you might be surprised: some day one of those girls--maybe one initially intimidated by math--might come up with a revolutionary breakthrough in mathematics, or simply have the confidence in herself to realize her intellectual potential.

  • ok first off! she explains things so that teenage girls can understand... she uses funny comparisons and actually makes math fun! so instead of being a mathematician like you and not trying to teach teens how to have fun and like math she's actually trying! oh and what's that? she's also succeeding. plus, she has a freakin' theorem named after her... do you? probably not...

  • Danica McKellar was in nyc 8/8/08 she was talking about her new book "kiss my math"

  • she can kiss me anytime

  • Wow, smart and hot.

    My kind of woman.

  • What a special girl

  • ill beat

  • I want her to tutor me!

    Beauty both inside and out. I wish Hollywood was more like this.

  • ugly

  • how could you concentrate with her

  • hottest mathematician ever.

  • She is a girl of girls, equal rights is NOT wasted on this latest model type of a girl, she is the Girl-7800! God bless her and others that act like they should for the

    2000's.

  • Why can't girls like her get praise? She's intelligent, she'll make you like math, she graduated from college and has a degree, she does not have a trashy reputation and she's a beautiful woman...

    ...instead we hear news flashes about Britney on the verge of a nervous breakdown and how she forgot to wear panties when she went out today...

  • Because the average moron thinks "math is hard" and thus are scared of this woman.

  • She gets all *kinds* of praise from me! YAY DANICA! You go, girl!

  • I love Danica McKellar. She should be wit me

  • I knew she would end up hot as ****

  • Finally, someone a superstar whom everybody (especially young girls) can look up to. I'm sick and tired of hearing Lindsay, Paris, Britney, and Amy Wino in the news. Danica is news Hollywood can use!

  • Was I in coma? When did Winnie Cooper get so hot?!

  • YEAH BABY!! A LOGICAL WOMAN! Awright! She being super hot is the clincher bonus! Here you have a girl who takes care of herself enough to look the way she does. Prolly exercises, don't smoke, eats right. And then she exercises her mind as well. Beautiful. Oh, then she's got heart, helping gals and kids to tackle math. Sweet

  • I now love math.

    Truth

  • increible an pasado muchos años y yo aun la amo de verdad amo a winne es hermosisima

  • aunque ha pasado años aun la sigo amando de verdad la amo

  • jejje ella sigue siendo la mima winnie de siempre ehh es bella y hermosa

  • SCHWINGGGGGGGGGGG

  • SMO-KIN!

  • talk about hot for teacher!

  • dang, she's just got fyner as hell. she can teach me math anytime (muahhahahah)

  • good for her. if more people understood math, they wouldn't have entered into financial suicide mortgages.

  • That's true. Now those people want the government to bail them out. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT, THEN DON'T BUY IT.

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