> When the problems get harder than the fake ones you're given in high school, caring about them starts to matter. I wonder how much damage we're doing by forc

> When the problems get harder than the fake ones you're given in high school, caring about them starts to matter. I wonder how much damage we're doing by forcing kids to work fake useless problems? Granted, it's tough to come up with problems that have never been solved before (nobody's expecting a PhD-level solution from a grade-school kid). However, what if we at least asked kids questions where the answer wasn't literally a list of letters for a multiple choice exam?