Albert Cardona<p>Son: can you help me with this math homework. Is like a sudoku but with other constraints.</p><p>Me: sure, let's write this constraint satisfaction problem as a minizinc program ...</p><p>Son: cool, but can you teach me to solve it without programming.</p><p>Me: what's the point of that.</p><p>I am not sure what math skill this is meant to teach other than developing frustration for "math". Are the teachers secretly hoping kids will be learning to formalize CSPs early in life? Because that's what they'll get.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MathHomework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MathHomework</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSP</span></a></p>