[bummerdude]

"If it takes Sam six minutes to wash a car by himself," one fan asked recently, "and it takes Brian eight minutes to wash a car by himself, how long will it take them to wash a car together?"

"This is a 'rates' problem," Ms. McKellar wrote in reply. "The key is to think about each of their 'car washing rates' and not the 'time' it takes them."

Headline: Actress can do high-school math.

[Ichneumon]

Headline: Actress can do high-school math.

Don't be too quick to scoff -- a *lot* of high-schoolers (probably a large majority) couldn't solve that problem.

[GreenLanternCorps]

"Headline: Actress can do high-school math."


This is High School math?

http://danicamckellar.com/math/percolation.pdf

[fire and forget]

More like grade school math.

[exnavychick]

She's also a math tutor. Fercryinoutloud, she proved a new theorem...I'd say that's pretty impressive.

Of course, I'm completely hopeless when it comes to mathematics, so perhaps I'm too easily swayed. (Since I'm a chick, pics of her in a bikini aren't going to cut it for me!)

[antiRepublicrat]

Headline: Actress can do high-school math.

I'm pretty good at math, having breezed through my undergraduate math courses with As. Much of what is in her paper is WAY over my head.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

She may also be the only actress, now or ever, to prove a new mathematical theorem, one that bears her name.

I guess you missed that part.

By the way, what mathematical theorems have YOU proved lately?