September 5, 2016

The problem of problems.
Remember when you were in school – or maybe you’re there now – and we get the dreaded “word problems” in math?

Even if math itself wasn’t hard, those word problems were always tough.

Until one day – some really nice teacher explained the key to solving word problems.  He (or was it she?) said the reason word problems were so difficult was that they had so many extra words.  Those words were meant to confuse.  They were meant to make it hard to solve.  And they succeeded.

Anyway – the real “problem” was …