"The Algebra Problem"
Barry just sent the link - apparently in 1954 fathers still knew high school algebra.
Today Assistant Superintendents for Curriculum don't know high school algebra.
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They do what they do.
Thinking about schools and peers and parent-child attachments....I came across one of my favorite posts .
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This actually sounds more like a particular class of problem known as an NP-complete problem, not an algebra problem :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete
(Although the constraint "less in 5 trips" sounds like a simplification: a real problem would ask for something like "find the minimum amount of trips required".)
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