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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s part of math and will be necessary as he advances so definitely best not to fight it but instead support him developing the skill. Whatever you don’t act like getting out of showing work is worthwhile goal or that he is somehow “good at math” because he can do it in his head. [b]Being good at math includes showing work. [/quote][/b]

Exactly. If the instructions say to show your work, that’s what you need to do. There are good reasons for it and kids don’t necessarily understand the underlying reasons now, but they will when they are older. And they will appreciate the teachers who insisted on following instructions. [/quote]

OP here - I am a teacher, and I don't think our stated mission anywhere is to teach kids to follow instructions.  I thought it was to teach them critical thinking, yada yada.  So following instructions when it means doing something unnecessary that just make the work harder really isn't worth teaching.  Like I said earlier - I was a teacher in fcps, and the only reason we insisted on them writing out the work was when we started the SOL high stakes testing and really needed them to get every answer right.  There was no educational theory at all behind that.[/quote]

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