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[quote=pettifogger][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid in ES in AAP math, and he's not doing well because he doesn't show his work enough.  He gets the answers right, but he can do most of the problems in his head. He tries to write out his work, but he just can't do it in enough detail for her.  He much prefers to do it in his head, and he doesn't do any better when he is forced to write it out.  It just makes the whole thing tedious for him.  I used to teach in fcps and our main goal for making kids write out their work in math was so that they would get the test questions right.  The teacher tries to tell him some nonsense about how she wants to see his thinking, but she doesn't even look at the work that is turned in, and certainly has never given him even five minutes of personal attention to talk about his "thinking."  Does anyone else have a kid that suffers from this rule about showing work or getting it marked wrong?  I'm not happy about this, obviously.[/quote]

My kid gets similarly frustrated where he finds it hard to show work or write an explanation of something that he can do in his head, or is immediately obvious. I've taught him how to handle it by finding something logical to say and succintly write it in 1 or 2 sentences max (which so far in 3rd grade aap is about as much as needed, given the low difficulty level of questions). It's been working ok and he's improved his ability to explain things but I don't force him to overdo it (and luckily neither does his teacher).

I suspect that the questions are likely simple enough given that he can do them in his head. Can you provide specific examples of questions asked, and what work he's shown, if any? Then we can figure out how much work he should show, if any, based on his level.[/quote]

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