Danica McKellar

About the Author

Danica Mae McKellar was born on January 3, 1975. She is an American actress, author and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as author of the two New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive show more Middle-School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, and Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss, both of which encourage middle-school girls to learn mathematics. Her third math book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed, will be published later in 2010. McKellar studied at UCLA, and majored in mathematics. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Danika McKeller, Danika McKellar

Image credit: Danica McKellar at the 2018 United States National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72251900

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Works by Danica McKellar

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Goodnight, Numbers (2017) 506 copies

Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math (2007) 418 copies

Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss (2008) 265 copies

Hot X: Algebra Exposed (2010) 177 copies

Ten Magic Butterflies (2018) 108 copies

Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape (2012) 77 copies

Do Not Open This Math Book: Addition + Subtraction (2018) 52 copies

Bathtime Mathtime (2018) 44 copies

The Times Machine!: Learn Multiplication and Division. . . Like, Yesterday! (2020) 40 copies

Double Puppy Trouble (McKellar Math) (2022) 20 copies

Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z2 1 copy

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Associated Works

Crown for Christmas [2015 TV movie] (2015) — Actor — 24 copies

Where Hope Grows [2014 film] (2014) — Actor — 21 copies

Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam [2010 animated short film] (2010) 17 copies

Coming Home for Christmas [2017 TV Movie] (2017) — Actor — 9 copies

Hallmark Channel Triple Feature: Christmas At Grand Valley / Christmas Made to Order / Christmas at Pemberley Manor — Actor — 9 copies

Christmas at Dollywood [2019 TV movie] (2019) — Actor — 8 copies

Young Justice: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] (2014) — Performer — 6 copies

Love at the Christmas Table [2012 TV movie] (2012) — Actor — 6 copies

My Christmas Dream [2016 TV movie] (2016) — Actor — 5 copies

Christmas She Wrote [2020 TV movie] (2020) 5 copies

Very, Very, Valentine [2018 TV movie] (2018) — Actor — 4 copies

You, Me and the Christmas Trees [2021 TV movie] (2022) — Actor — 4 copies

Campfire Kiss [2017 TV movie] (2017) 3 copies

MatchMaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance [2020 TV movie] (2020) 3 copies

MatchMaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement [2019 TV movie] (2019) — Actor — 3 copies

Wedding Bells [2016 TV movie] (2016) — Actor — 3 copies

Love in Design [2018 TV movie] (2018) 2 copies

Hack! [2007 film] — Actor — 2 copies

Christmas at Grand Valley [2018 TV movie] (2018) — Actor — 2 copies

Love and Sunshine [2019 TV movie] (2019) — Actor — 2 copies

Perfect Match [2015 TV movie] (2015) — Actor — 2 copies

Matchmaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill [2021 TV movie] (2021) — Actor — 2 copies

Camp Cucamonga [1990 TV movie] (2004) — Actor — 1 copy

Swing into Romance [2023 TV movie] — Actor — 1 copy

The Winter Palace [2022 TV movie] 1 copy

A Royal Date for Christmas [2023 TV movie] 1 copy

Path of Destruction [2005 TV movie] (2005) 1 copy

Christmas at the Drive-In [2022 TV movie] 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: McKellar, Danica
Legal name: McKellar, Danica Mae
Birthdate: 1975-01-03
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Los Angeles, California, USA
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (BS|Mathematics; Summa Cum Laude)
Occupations: actor
mathematician
Organizations: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Math-a-Thon
Awards and honors: Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award (2014)

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Goodnight, Numbers (McKellar Math) by Danica McKellar

I love Danica as a Hallmark actress (and side note, we had her on our Hallmark podcast--or friends did since I was busy with Audrey--). And I love that she also has another side to her: her math side. She's more than just beauty; she has brains too.

This book is not earth shattering. But I did love counting from one to ten and finding all of the different objects on the page that correspond with the number we are on. It's fun!

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msgabbythelibrarian | 4 other reviews | Jun 11, 2023 |

Ten Magic Butterflies by Danica McKellar

Flowers.
Fairies
Counting....

Danica McKellar's ways of making math concepts approachable is definitely a winning one.

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msgabbythelibrarian | 8 other reviews | Jun 11, 2023 |

Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss by Danica McKellar

If you have ever read Everything you need to know to pass middle school math, then you will like this book too. The author talks about her personal math struggles while also giving tips and advice on ways to 'get' math. It also has a middle school feel to it to relate to that level of students more.

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KamriC | 6 other reviews | Nov 30, 2022 |

Ten Magic Butterflies (McKellar Math) by Danica McKellar

Note: I received an F&G of this book at an ALA conference.

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fernandie | 8 other reviews | Sep 15, 2022 |

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