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Similarly, "plug and chug" homework problems should not be
assigned, because they foster the foolish expectation that
problems can be solved in the obvious way. As an example of
something better, include two or three irrelevant factoids
in the statement of the problem. Someone who takes the
childish, greedy approach of exploiting the given factoids
in the order they are presented will get stuck.