Argon is one of the noble gases. It's an element on the periodic table.

Here's the question.

What is the atomic number of Argonne.

Hey, it's Kevin Beach, and this is a special archived episode of Akembo.

The thing is the atomic number of Argonne is not an interesting question.

It's something you could easily look up.

Someone already knows the answer.

When I wrote Stop Stealing Dreams several years ago.

In it I put that there are two things we ought to teach kids to do in school.

One is to lead and the second is to solve interesting problems.

And I've been surprised through the year. is to solve interesting problems.

And I've been surprised through the years

at how many people have asked.

How do we find interesting problems

for our kids to solve? I've heard you speak on a number of occasions about finding interesting problems to solve with your kids and I love this idea.

I try to do this as much as I can but to be honest it can be rather difficult to come up with new things.

I realize that solve interesting problems has three challenges.

Solve, Interesting, and Problems.

So I wanted to talk for a few minutes about what it means to find and work on an interesting problem. Let's begin with

solve. If you come from the educational industrial complex with multiple choice

tests with SAT scores with most of all the right answer, with the idea

that the teacher has something in mind and you're supposed to guess what it is, then the word

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