Last week, I finally managed to get my hands on Danica McKellar’s book Math Doesn’t Suck, and now I’m recommending all of my girl students read it.
In the book, McKellar offers explanations, tips and practice problems for some of the topics that give most kids fits in math class- factors, fractions, decimals, percents, proportions, and encountering variables for the first time, and she frames it all in stories just about any girl can relate to.
Along the way, she offers insight into her own experiences with math and being a smart girl, and encourages the reader to find their own confidence and to not give that up for anyone.
The book also has an accompanying website that offers full explanations of the practice problems in the book, and provides a forum where students can gather to talk about math education, math and science careers for girls, and being both beautiful and smart in this day and age.
Maybe the stick figure in the second panel above should read it, if only to get a clue!
[...] Book Review- Kiss My Math Filed under: Dead Bunny Reads — Rebecca @ 9:34 am I’m apparently slacking off. I read Kiss My Math two weeks ago, and still haven’t blogged about it. Meanwhile, my raving about it has driven at least three of my fellow teachers to run out and read both Kiss My Math and Math Doesn’t Suck. [...]
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