Comments on: Girls Doing Math https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: badrescher https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538411 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:07:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538411 I am the math tutor in our house, too. My husband hated it as a child and still hates it. He manages, though, to use it even in his job (which is art direction).

]]> By: Ouchimoo https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538410 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:09:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538410 My kid sister is good at math. Which irritates me because I can’t do math at all. *dyscalculia probably (I fit the symptoms to a tee* but to my dismay because of her social network, science is now uncool. Grr.

]]> By: Ben Zvan https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538409 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:09:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538409 Danica McKellar has, in fact, written book on the subject of math and they are aimed toward pre-teen and teen girls. If you’re interested, they’re called ‘Math Doesn’t Suck’ and ‘Kiss My Math.’

]]> By: Spiv https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538408 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:17:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538408 Did you just call your wife ugly and unpopular? Geez Greg. Bad form.

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538407 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:19:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538407 I would call your attention to

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

]]> By: Miss Cellania https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538406 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:08:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538406 Winnie Cooper comes to mind, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_McKellar

]]> By: Heraclides https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538405 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:23:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/22/girls-doing-math/#comment-538405 “Perez Hilton thinks that hot chicks can’t do math.”

Eh? Natalie Portman comes to mind…

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