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Danica McKellar Pens Tell-All Book About Math

Remember little Winnie from “The Wonder Years.”

Well, it looks like the actress who played Winnie, Danica McKellar has just penned a book about math titled “Math Doesn’t Suck,” to encourage girls to get into math.

“When girls see the antics of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, they think that being fun and glamorous also means being dumb and irresponsible,” the 32-year-old McKellar (who majored in math in college) told Newsweek for editions to hit newsstands Monday.

“But I want to show them that being smart is cool,” she said. “Being good at math is cool. And not only that, it can help them get what they want out of life.”

The book uses cutesy graphics and teen-magazine staples like personality quizzes and horoscopes to spell out often confusing concepts like reciprocal fractions and prime factorization.

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