Danica McKellar

McKellar was born in La Jolla, California.{{Cite web |title=Danica McKellar |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/danica-mckellar/189742/ |access-date=August 13, 2016 |publisher=TVGuide.com}}{{Cite web |last=Pearl |date=2017-03-09 |title=7 La Jollans Who Made an Impact on the World |url=https://lajolla.com/article/7-la-jollans-that-made-an-impact-on-the-world/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=LaJolla.com}}{{Cite web |date=2009-03-25 |title=Actress who played Winnie Cooper marries composer |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2009/03/25/actress-who-played-winnie-cooper-marries-composer/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} She moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother, Mahaila McKellar (née Tello), was a homemaker; her father, Christopher McKellar, is a real estate developer; her younger sister, Crystal (b. 1976), is a lawyer.{{Cite web |title=Danica McKellar Biography (1975–) |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Danica-McKellar.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173749/http://www.filmreference.com/film/38/Danica-McKellar.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=July 19, 2013 |website=FilmReference.com}} She is of Scottish, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch descent on her father's side, and of Portuguese descent, by way of the Azores and the Madeira islands, on her mother's side.{{Cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions: ethnic background |url=http://www.danicamckellar.com/faq |website=Official website | archive-date=April 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406040520/http://www.danicamckellar.com/faq/}}

In 1998, McKellar earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (summa cum laude) from UCLA, where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.{{Cite web |url= https://alphadeltapi.org/page/accomplishedmembers/ |title=Accomplished Members |access-date=August 14, 2022 |website=alphadeltapi.org}}{{Cite journal |last=Frazier |first=Kendrick |year=2008 |title=Mickelson, McKellar tout science, math, and being smart |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |volume=32 |issue=6 |page=12}} As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on $\backslash mathbb\{Z\}^2$."{{Cite journal |last1=Chayes |first1=L. |last2=D. McKellar |last3=B. Winn |date=November 13, 1998 |title=Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on z² |journal=Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General |volume=31 |issue=45 |page=9055 |bibcode=1998JPhA...31.9055C |doi=10.1088/0305-4470/31/45/005 |issn=0305-4470}} Their results are termed the "Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem".{{Cite web |title=USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2006: College Flashback: Danica McKellar |url=https://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/flashback/flashback_090105_brief.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314141931/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/student-center/flashback/flashback_090105_brief.php |archive-date=March 14, 2008 |access-date=February 3, 2010 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}{{Cite web |last=Tao |first=Terence |author-link=Terence Tao |title=Blog post by mathematician, and a former instructor of McKellar's, complimenting her book and explaining the theorem |date=August 20, 2007 |url=http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/math-doesnt-suck-and-the-chayes-mckellar-winn-theorem}} Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, he was quoted in The New York Times, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate."{{Cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |title=2005-07-19 |work=The New York Times |date=July 19, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/science/19math.html}} As a result of her past collaborative work on research papers, McKellar is currently assigned the Erdős number four, and the Erdős–Bacon number six.{{Cite news |date=August 14, 2007 |title=There's not much separating her from Bacon, Erdős |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20070814/bl_cover14_side.art.htm}}

At age seven, McKellar enrolled in weekend acting classes for children at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles.{{Cite news |last=Randle |first=Nancy |date=January 23, 1991 |title=Mirror Image: It's No Wonder Danica Mckellar Is A Winsome Winnie |work=Chicago Tribune |issue=January 23, 1991 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/01/23/mirror-image-29/ |access-date=May 1, 2015}} In her teens, she landed a prominent role in The Wonder Years, an American television comedy-drama that ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1993. She played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage) on the show. Her first kiss was with Fred Savage in an episode of The Wonder Years.{{Cite news |date=February 1, 2010 |title=Danica McKellar |work=Maxim |url=http://www.maxim.com/slideshow/girls-of-maxim/17784 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316031606/http://www.maxim.com/slideshow/girls-of-maxim/17784 |access-date=March 16, 2013|archive-date=March 16, 2013 }}{{Cite news |title=Danica McKellar |work=Maxim |url=https://www.maxim.com/women-az/danica-mckellar-profile |access-date=March 16, 2013 |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210171405/https://www.maxim.com/women-az/danica-mckellar-profile |url-status=dead }} She later said, "My first kiss was a pretty nerve-wracking experience! But we never kissed off screen, and pretty quickly our feelings turned into brother/sister, and stayed that way."

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McKellar has said that she found it "difficult" to move from being a child actress to an adult actress.{{Cite web |title=Where are they now? – Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years |url=http://www.paramountcomedy.com/comedy/watn/article.aspx?id=39 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051216/http://www.paramountcomedy.com/comedy/watn/article.aspx?id=39|access-date=September 27, 2007|archive-date = September 27, 2007}} Since leaving The Wonder Years, McKellar has had several guest roles in television series (including one with former co-star Fred Savage on Working), and has written and directed two short films. She appeared in two Lifetime films in the Moment of Truth series, playing Kristin Guthrie in 1994's Cradle of Conspiracy and Annie Mills Carman in 1996's Justice for Annie. She briefly returned to regular television with a recurring role in the 2002–03 season of The West Wing, portraying Elsie Snuffin, the half-sister and assistant of Deputy White House Communications Director Will Bailey.

McKellar was featured in the video for Debbie Gibson's eighth single from the Electric Youth album, "No More Rhyme", which was released in 1989. She plays the cello in the beginning of the video.{{cite news | url = https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/music/article/Debbie-Gibson-s-Electric-Youth-album-is-30-13678986.php | title = Debbie Gibson's 'Electric Youth' album is 30 years old | first = Joey | last = Guerra | work = Midland Reporter-Telegram | location = Midland, Texas | date = March 11, 2019}}

McKellar appeared in lingerie in the July 2005 edition of Stuff magazine{{Cite web |title=Danica McKellar pictures and bio |url=http://www.stuffmagazine.com/cover_girls/girl.aspx?id=468 |website=Stuff|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080916222821/http://www.stuffmagazine.com/cover_girls/girl.aspx?id=468|archive-date = September 16, 2008}} after readers voted her the 1990s star they would most like to see in lingerie. McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles".

In 2006, McKellar starred in a Lifetime film and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries.{{Cite web |date=June 12, 2006 |title=Winnie Cooper Goes Digital:McKellar to star in movies, webisodes for Lifetime |url=http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-danicamckellar-lifetimewebisodes,0,5927531.story |access-date=July 26, 2007 |website=Zap2it |archive-date=September 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929082352/http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-danicamckellar-lifetimewebisodes,0,5927531.story |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news |last=Cherkezian |first=Megan |date=November 17, 2006 |title=Wonder Years' Danica McKellar Fights Crime as "Inspector Mom" |work=TV Guide |url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/Wonder-Years-Danica-38331.aspx}}

On the August 1, 2007, edition of the Don and Mike Show, a WJFK-FM radio program out of Washington, D.C., McKellar announced that the producers of How I Met Your Mother were planning to bring her back for a recurring role (she guest-starred on the show in late 2005 in "The Pineapple Incident" and again in early 2007 in "Third Wheel"). She also made an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory, in the episode "The Psychic Vortex".{{Cite news |last=VanDerWerff |first=Emily |date=January 11, 2010 |title=The Big Bang Theory: "The Psychic Vortex" |work=The A.V. Club |url=https://www.avclub.com/the-big-bang-theory-the-psychic-vortex-1798164132}}

In 2008, she starred in Heatstroke, a Sci-Fi Channel film about searching for alien life on Earth and in 2009 she was one of the stars commenting on the occurrences of the new millennium in VH1's I Love the New Millennium and was the math correspondent for Brink, a program by the Science Channel about technology. In 2013, she played Ellen Plainview in Lifetime's reimagining of the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man.

McKellar has also worked as a voice actress, having provided the voice of Jubilee in the video game X-Men Legends (2004), and Invisible Woman in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009). She provided the voice of Miss Martian in the TV series Young Justice.

In 2012, she starred in the Lifetime film Love at the Christmas Table with Dustin Milligan.

In January 2013, she starred in the Syfy film Tasmanian Devils with Apolo Ohno.

On August 20, 2013, Canadian singer Avril Lavigne released the music video for her single "Rock N Roll" from her self-titled fifth album, which features McKellar as "Winnie Cooper".{{Cite web |title=96.5 TIC |url=http://965tic.cbslocal.com/2013/08/28/avril-lavigne-talks-rock-n-roll-music-video-kissing-winnie-cooper/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130223101/http://965tic.cbslocal.com/2013/08/28/avril-lavigne-talks-rock-n-roll-music-video-kissing-winnie-cooper/ |archive-date=January 30, 2014 |access-date=November 2, 2018 |website=96.5 TIC}}

On March 4, 2014, she was announced to be competing on season 18 of Dancing with the Stars. She paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy.{{Cite web |title=Dancing With the Stars Cast Revealed! Cody Simpson, Nene Leakes and James Maslow Are Among the Names—See the Full List! |url=http://uk.eonline.com/news/517094/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-revealed-cody-simpson-nene-leakes-and-james-maslow-are-among-the-names-see-the-full-list |website=E! Online|date=March 4, 2014 }} McKellar and Chmerkovskiy were eliminated on Week 8, finishing in 6th place.

She had a guest appearance in the Impractical Jokers season four episode six titled "The Blunder Years". She made another guest appearance in the season seven episode ten titled "Speech Impediment".

In 2015, she starred in the Netflix original series Project Mc² as The Quail.

She has starred in several Hallmark Channel films, including Crown for Christmas, My Christmas Dream, Campfire Kiss, Love and Sunshine, Christmas at Dollywood, and You, Me & the Christmas Trees as well as the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries series The Matchmaker Mysteries.

McKellar is a judge on Fox's Domino Masters{{cite web |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |title='Domino Masters': Danica McKellar, Vernon Davis & Steven Price Set As Judges On Fox Reality Series |url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/domino-masters-danica-mckellar-vernon-davis-steven-price-judges-fox-reality-series-1234758040/ |website=Deadline |access-date=January 26, 2022 |date=May 17, 2021}} which premiered on March 9, 2022.{{cite web |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |title=Fox Spring Premiere Dates: More 'Masked Singer'; '9-1-1' Return; 'Domino Masters' Debuts, More |url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/fox-spring-premiere-dates-masked-911-masterchef-junior-singer-welcome-to-flatch-domino-masters-1234920416/ |website=Deadline |access-date=January 26, 2022 |date=January 26, 2022}}

McKellar has authored several mathematics-related books primarily targeting adolescent readers interested in succeeding at the study of mathematics:

• {{Cite book |last1=McKellar |first1=Danica |title=Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail |last2=Mary Lynn Blasutta |date=2008 |publisher=Plume |isbn=9780452289499 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss |date=2009 |publisher=Plume |isbn=9780452295407 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |url=https://archive.org/details/hotxalgebraexpos0000mcke_n6f4 |title=Hot X: Algebra Exposed |date=2010 |publisher=Plume |isbn=9780452297197 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape |date=2012 |publisher=Hudson Street Press |isbn=9781594630941 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Ten Magic Butterflies |date=2018 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9781101933824 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Do Not Open This Math Book |date=2018 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9781101933985 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Bathtime Mathtime |date=2019 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9781101933961 |location=New York}}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=The Times Machine |date=2020 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9781101934029 |location=New York }}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Double Puppy Trouble |date=2022 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9781101933862 |location=New York }}
• {{Cite book |last=McKellar |first=Danica |title=Goodnight, Numbers |date=2022 |publisher=Random House Children's Books |isbn=9780593643556 |location=New York }}

Her first book, Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, was a New York Times bestseller, and was favorably reviewed by Tara C. Smith, the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa.{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Tara |date=July 24, 2007 |title=Aetiology:Danica McKellar's "Math Doesn't Suck" |url=http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/07/danica_mckelllars_math_doesnt.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405171000/http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/07/danica_mckelllars_math_doesnt.php |archive-date=April 5, 2008 |access-date=July 26, 2007 |website=Aetiology |publisher=ScienceBlogs}} The book also received a review from Anthony Jones, writing for the School Librarian journal, who described the book as "a trouble-shooting guide to help girls overcome their biggest maths challenges," noting what he described as "real-world examples of great mathematics in action."{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Anthony Hamilton |date=2011 |title=McKellar, Danica: Maths Doesn't Suck |url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA252385687&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w |journal=School Librarian |volume=59 |issue=1 |page=62 |issn=0036-6595 |access-date=July 4, 2013}} In an interview with Smith, McKellar said that she wrote the book "to show girls that math is accessible and relevant, and even a little glamorous" and to counteract "damaging social messages telling young girls that math and science aren't for them".{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Tara |date=July 25, 2007 |title=Interview with math whiz, author, and actress Danica McKellar |url=http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/07/interview_with_math_whiz_autho.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016195125/http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/07/25/interview-with-math-whiz-autho/ |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |access-date=July 26, 2007 |website=Aetiology |publisher=ScienceBlogs}}

McKellar's second book, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss,{{Cite book |last=Danica McKellar |url=https://archive.org/details/kissmymathshowin0000mcke |title=Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss |publisher=Hudson Street Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-59463-049-1 |url-access=registration}} was released on August 5, 2008. The book's target audience is girls in the 7th through 9th grades. Her third book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed!{{Cite book |last=Danica McKellar |url=https://archive.org/details/hotxalgebraexpos0000mcke |title=Hot X: Algebra Exposed |publisher=Hudson Street Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59463-070-5 |url-access=registration}} covers algebra topics, while the previous two titles were intended as "algebra-readiness books."{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2010 |title=Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X' |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129031017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091723/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129031017 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=July 4, 2013 |website=National Public Radio}} Hot X was published on August 3, 2010. Her fourth book, Girls Get Curves – Geometry Takes Shape,{{Cite book |last=Danica McKellar |url=http://us.penguingroup.com/Book?isbn=9781594630941&title=Girls_Get_Curves_Danica_McKellar |title=Girls Get Curves – Geometry Takes Shape |publisher=Hudson Street Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-59463-094-1 |access-date=August 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223228/http://www.us.penguingroup.com/Book?isbn=9781594630941&title=Girls_Get_Curves_Danica_McKellar |url-status=dead }} focuses on the subject of geometry, and attempts to make the subject more accessible.{{Cite interview |last=Lichtman |first=Flora |title=Actress Danica McKellar Helps "Girls Get Curves" |url=http://www.proquest.com/docview/1033783005 |access-date=July 5, 2013 |work=Science Friday |publisher=National Public Radio |place=Washington, D.C. |date=August 17, 2012}}

Three of McKellar's books were listed in The New York Times children's bestseller list.{{Cite news |last=Schuessler |first=Jennifer |date=August 22, 2010 |title=Children's Chapter Books |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2010-08-22/chapter-books/list.html |access-date=August 23, 2012}}{{Cite news |date=September 28, 2008 |title=Best Sellers: Children's Books |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/bestseller/bestchildren.html |access-date=May 10, 2009}} She received Mathical Honors for Goodnight, Numbers.{{Cite news|title=Mathical Book Prizes 2021|url=https://www.mathicalbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mathical_Booklist_Web_2021.pdf}}

{{Cite journal |last1=Chayes |first1=L |last2=McKellar |first2=D |last3=Winn |first3=B |year=1998 |title=Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on $\backslash mathbb\{Z\}^2$ |url=https://danicamckellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/percolation.pdf |journal=Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General |volume=31 |issue=45 |pages=9055–9063 |bibcode=1998JPhA...31.9055C |doi=10.1088/0305-4470/31/45/005}}

McKellar was named Person of the Week on World News with Charles Gibson for the week ending August 10, 2007. The news segment highlighted her book Math Doesn't Suck and her efforts to help girls develop an interest in mathematics, especially during the middle school years.{{Cite web |title=ABC News: Person of the Week: Danica McKellar |website = ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/story?id=3467211&page=1 |access-date=August 10, 2007}} In January 2014, she received the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award. The citation credited her books, blog, and public appearances for encouraging "countless middle and high school students, especially girls, to be more interested in mathematics."{{Cite book |url=http://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/prizebooklet-2014.pdf |title=Prizes And Awards |date=January 2014 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |page=35}}

McKellar married composer Mike Verta on March 22, 2009, in La Jolla, California; the couple had dated since 2001.{{Cite news |date=March 22, 2009 |title=Danica McKellar is Married! |work=People |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20267146,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529175327/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20267146,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 29, 2012}} They had their only child, a son, in 2010.{{Cite news |date=March 17, 2010 |title=Danica McKellar is Pregnant! |work=People |url=https://people.com/parents/the-wonder-yearss-danica-mckellar-is-pregnant/}}{{Cite web |date=June 6, 2012 |title=Danica McKellar Files for Divorce |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20601873,00.html |access-date=June 6, 2012 |website=People |archive-date=June 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608043407/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20601873,00.html |url-status=dead }} McKellar filed for divorce from Verta in June 2012.{{Cite news |date=June 12, 2012 |title='Wonder Years' actress Danica McKellar files for divorce |work=Chicago Sun-Times |url=http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/13034071-421/wonder-years-actress-danica-mckellar-files-for-divorce.html |url-status=dead |access-date=June 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711023702/http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/13034071-421/wonder-years-actress-danica-mckellar-files-for-divorce.html |archive-date=July 11, 2012}}

On July 16, 2014, she became engaged to her boyfriend Scott Sveslosky, a partner in the Los Angeles legal firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. On November 15, 2014, they married in Kauai, Hawaii.{{Cite news |date=November 20, 2014 |title=Danica McKellar Is Married! |work=People |url=http://www.people.com/article/danica-mckellar-marries-scott-sveslosky |access-date=November 20, 2014}}

McKellar is a Christian and regularly attends church services.{{cite web |last1=Alcindor |first1=Nicole |title='Wonder Years' star Danica McKellar says finding Christ has been 'a revolution in my life' |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/wonder-years-star-reflects-on-finding-christ-in-2022.html |website=The Christian Post |access-date=6 January 2023 |date=30 December 2022}} She cites Candace Cameron Bure as having been a major influence in her life after Bure gave her a copy of the Bible.

McKellar's notoriety for Hallmark mystery films was spoofed in the 2019 film Knives Out, complete with the parody title Deadly By Surprise.{{Cite web |last=Jirak |first=Jamie |date=November 27, 2019 |title=Danica McKellar sent Rian Johnson the perfect Knives Out gift |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/danica-mckellar-sent-rian-johnson-perfect-knives-out-gift/ |access-date=January 16, 2021}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170912105114/http://danicaworld.com/ Danica McKellar's blog]
• [https://mckellarmath.com/ Website for McKellar Math]
• [http://mathdoesntsuck.com/ Website of Math Doesn't Suck]
• [http://kissmymath.com/ Website for Kiss My Math]
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5201825 Interview with McKellar about her theorem] at NPR
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060422031647/http://www.stanford.edu/group/IRWG/NewsAndEvents/Conferences.html February 2006 Proof and Prejudice: Women in Mathematics Conference], at which McKellar was a speaker
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120318215632/http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Sep/hour2_092107.html Science Friday for September 21, 2007] with McKellar among the guests
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091013143157/http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/visionaries/DanicaMcKellar Public School Insights Interview with McKellar about girls and math]

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