“In life there are some problems you can take care
of,” Hans explained. “Then there are some problems
you can’t. But math problems are not like that. If you
think hard and stick with it, you can get the math
problems .”
“Well,” I said. “Maybe you can! But not all of us
can, as I found out last week .”
Hans went on, “I never made a plan to get good
at math. I just did problems for fun. I did a lot of
problems. And after a while I got good at it .”