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  2. Danica McKellar - Wikipedia

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    1. Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) [ 1 ] is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She is best known for playing Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years. McKellar has appeared in various television films for the Hallmark Channel. She has also done voice acting, including Frieda Goren in ...

  3. Stand and Deliver - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $13.9 million [2] Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st ...

  4. Sweet Valley High - Wikipedia

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    Audiobook. E-book. Sweet Valley High is a series of young adult novels attributed to American author Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters to produce the series. [1][2] The books chronicle the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in the fictional Sweet Valley, California, a suburb near Los Angeles.

  5. List of films about mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    The Bank (2001) – A mathematician discovers a formula to predict fluctuations in the stock market. Cube (1997) – Six people, including Leaven, a math student, awake in a deathtrap based on mathematical principles. Fermat's Room (2007) – Three mathematicians and one inventor are invited to a house under the premise of solving a great ...

  6. Math Girls - Wikipedia

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    Math Girls (数学ガール, Sūgaku gāru) is the first in a series of math-themed young adult novels of the same name by Japanese author Hiroshi Yuki. It was published by SoftBank Creative in 2007, followed by Math Girls: Fermat's Last Theorem in 2008, Math Girls: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems in 2009, and Math Girls: Randomized Algorithms in 2011.

  7. List of Sweet Valley High books - Wikipedia

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    May 1, 1985. Enid and her boyfriend George are involved in a plane accident; Enid's injury - paralysis from the waist down - halts George from breaking up with her. Meanwhile, Jessica and Lila take a cooking course, mainly to drool over the scrumptious French chef. Ghostwritten by Amy Boesky.

  8. List of child prodigies - Wikipedia

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    Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American philosopher and mathematician. He graduated from Ayer High School at 11 years of age. He was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14. [5] Lev Landau (1908–1968) was a Soviet physicist who mastered calculus by age 13. He graduated from the Baku Gymnasium aged only 13 as well.

  9. Mathematics education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. Mathematics education in the United States varies considerably from one state to the next, and even within a single state. However, with the adoption of the Common Core Standards in most states and the District of Columbia beginning in 2010, mathematics content across the country has moved into closer agreement for each grade level.