[Tetraman]

Remove algebra - truly an american answer to an american problem.

After remembering how awful I was at math in high school, thanks to this opinion piece, I remember the times when math was easy for me - and those where the days where we were taught not "how to solve the problem", but "how problems are solved". By this, I mean instead of the teacher putting an equation on the board and explaining how to solve it, the teacher explained how the symbols were utilized. It was like, solving a sudoku or Rush Hour puzzle. We were taught how the parts work, how the parts are solved - it was a series of systems that could be pulled from a shelf of knowledge and then worked with to get an answer. Instead of learning how to solve a problem, I learned how to solve a series of individual puzzles and their connections to a larger puzzle.

Maybe this is why I like designing board games so much - I love to work with systems as puzzles.