My daughter had a challenge question on her math homework. Something like, "Suzie has 32 buttons. She uses 7. Then she uses another 4. How many does she have left? Show your work."

Under the question, she'd written an endless string of equations, using all of the numbers of the problem and some unrelated ones, adding and subtracting in every combination. It looked like the chalkboard in Good Will Hunting. Next to all of it, was the correct answer, 21, circled.

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