The problem with the temperament checks in the last two paragraphs is that they’re still testing roughly the same thing that’s tested earlier on-- competence at word problems.
And possibly interest in word problems—I know I’ve seen versions of the three problems before. I wouldn’t be going at them completely cold, but I wouldn’t have noticed and remembered having seen them decades ago if word problems weren’t part of my mental univers.
The problem with the temperament checks in the last two paragraphs is that they’re still testing roughly the same thing that’s tested earlier on-- competence at word problems.
And possibly interest in word problems—I know I’ve seen versions of the three problems before. I wouldn’t be going at them completely cold, but I wouldn’t have noticed and remembered having seen them decades ago if word problems weren’t part of my mental univers.