legal instruction

     How are law students like math students?  They struggle with word problems.  While these word problems look very different, the mastery struggles that these two types of students encounter are fundamentally similar: They are taught a concept (such as the legal research process or a four-pronged test for determining culpability in a particular legal scenario), often in conjunction with a particular hypothetical; they seem to understand the concept, and can even regurgitate the steps to you aloud; yet, when faced with a new hypothetical (a new word problem),