When I was reading through the first couple of chapters in Shaffer’s book, I keep getting stuck on the idea of school being a type of game. In Shaffer’s words, “much of schooling is about learning to access parts of this cultural record: learning to read, and write, and work with mathematical symbols” (63). Shaffer also states, while talking about microworlds and autoepressivity, that “[w]hatever you do, you do based on assumptions about how the world works.