[roceasta]

Nicely illustrated. As you imply, the scariness is a property of schooling rather than of mathematics itself. And where game play is scary, it's at a level chosen by and controlled by the player, for optimal learning I suspect.

[occultist_throw]

Not only that, but with "GPA" provides a running historical average that serves as a sign that:

"No matter how good the student is now, they sucked at one time and they can never escape this eventuality".

Imagine a game that's tough, full of oft-used rules, failure potentialities everywhere, limited lives, and punishes failure/learning cycle. That's School.