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I do disagree with the statement that if you can't explain the concept, you don't understand the concept. This is plays out in many, many fields. A great violinist hears, feels, and understands fully the concepts of pitch, harmony, tones etc. This same violinist may not be able to write an essay explaining in sentences how they play so well. A english major or music history major may be able to write a wonderful essay comparing and contrasting or explaining this but can't play a simple tune. An artist may be able to construct beautiful compositions but again is far less successful in translating this into a writing skill to explain what they already know and have learned. There is no value in forcing everything to conform to a language assignment approach. 
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I don't know about third grade. If MCPS actually does require explanations in third grade and afterward to be written out in words and sentences, that is not useful. Explanations (as you say) need not be in words and sentences. And in my experience of violinists, which is non-negligible, they certainly can explain what they're doing.[/quote]

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