Random thoughts...

... because certain problems have more than 1 missing element, so using letters just makes sense. There's more letters than puncutation symbols. https://i.imgflip.com/1cr5m3.jpg

Just look at it this way, doing math is like working out for your brain. The more you do it, the more you work that muscle (brain), the better you will get at it. More importantly, and this is key, especially for high school and college math, the quicker you get and finish homework faster.

Math was always my strongest subject. The one thing that fucked me up though is that they let us use calculators in high school but not in college. It’s like why the fuck did they let us use them in high school in the first place then!

hm when I was in highschool we were only allowed a certain Texas Instrument calculator model because the most current one at the time (lets say around the year 2000) you could just plug in a problem and it would solve it. I think that was fair.