I watched as Hans started jotting down numbers
and letters. He got the problem in less than a minute.
“See?” he said. “It is not so hard!”
“Hans,” I said, “Dr. Chang tells me you aced that
test. She says you missed just six problems out of a
hundred. That is fantastic! Tell me. How did you get
so good at math?”
Hans sat down and told me the tale of his life. He
spoke good English but with a thick accent.
Hans doing the problem that I couldn’t do