MathFiction: The Simpsons: Girls Just Want to Have Sums (Matt Selman)

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The Simpsons: Girls Just Want to Have Sums (2006)

Matt Selman
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In this episode from the 17th season of the hit cartoon The Simpsons, the principal of Bart and Lisa's school makes a sexist comment (clearly a reference to the controversial comments from Harvard President Larry Summers about a year ago) which leads to the school being divided into separate programs by gender. Lisa is upset at the poor quality of education received by the girls and so masquerades as a boy so as to be able to attend their math classes.

For more information, check out Sarah Greenwald's Site and this Wikipedia entry.

Also, be sure to check out the description of other math on The Simpsons here on the Mathematical Fiction homepage and at Sarah's SimpsonsMath page.

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Mathematical Content:
3/5 (1 votes)

Literary Quality:
4/5 (1 votes)

Categories:

Genre	Humorous, Children's Literature,
Motif	Academia, Female Mathematicians, Math Education,
Topic
Medium	Television Series or Episode,

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