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Danica McKellar is our guest blogger during the week of August 27th. If you have any questions for Danica McKellar, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail:

“McKellar is probably the only person on prime-time television who moonlights as a cyberspace math tutor.”

—The New York Times

As the math education crisis in this country continues to make headlines, research continues to prove that it is in middle school when math scores begin to drop—especially for girls—in large part due to the relentless social conditioning that tells girls they “can’t do” math, and that math is “uncool.” Young girls today need strong female role models to embrace the idea that it’s okay to be smart—in fact, it’s sexy to be smart!