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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What my son doesn't like in the higher level math is first that being done on a screen is different than using a paper and pencil. And second having to show each individual step in mathspace's opinion of how to do a problem, doesn't always leave room in higher level math for individual approaches. This is the bigger problem to me. It sometimes didn't even align with the steps his teacher taught them. [/quote]

He does not have to show each individual step. He can solve the problem on scratch paper and then just input the answer.[/quote]

That was not true for algebra 1. I even watched him do it because he was so frustrated and he absolutely had to show every step. Maybe it’s a teacher setting? [/quote]

I am a teacher in FCPS. You do not have to enter in each individual step to solve a problem. For example, if the problem is 4x + 3 = 5(x - 2), he can solve it on paper or in his head and enter x = 13 into the box.[/quote]

Well, that's interesting, because (unprompted) my son's high school honors geometry teacher told parents at BTSN that what she likes about mathspace is that the student has to enter every step along the way to solving a problem and mathspace stops them if they make a misstep so they have to fix it. 
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Exactly.  Which is exactly why many parents (like me) hate it.[/quote]

But are reading the responses from math teachers explaining that your child does not have to enter every step along the way? They can solve the problem on paper or in their head and then just type the answer into the first box.[/quote]

Again - this was not the case when MathSpace was first rolled out, which is when my own kids had to deal with it.  Every step was required to be inputted and only in very specific ways.  Glad to hear they’ve changed that (no doubt due to hundreds of complaints), but the experiences described here were NOT at all what my kids had. [/quote]

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