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[quote=Anonymous]For simple operations, it's pretty inane to ask kids to show or explain their work. The time spent demanding that in K-3 would be better spent with drilling basic math facts. For word problems and pre-algebra equation solving, the student should at least show some steps. They shouldn't need to show every trivial operation, but there should at least be enough there for the teacher to figure out how the student arrived at the answer. I think this example: "6x = 12 6x/6 = 12/6 x = 2" is a perfect example of the teacher being overly picky and expecting trivial steps to be illustrated. It should be sufficient for a kid to jump to x=2 from the problem statement. Now, if the problem were 6x + 3 = (-2x -13)/4, then the kid should show at least one intermediate step before listing the answer. [/quote]
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