Re:To show or not to show work
by thrower123 on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:37PM
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I would definitely say that if you want students to show their work, it behooves you to show what that means.
I had six years of Saxon math, and probably did upwards of 700 30-problem problem sets. After that kind of repetition and consistent grading, showing work was instinctive, I'd seen it lesson after lesson presented the same way, and had to do it thousands and thousands of times. Other math curricula I've seen require far, far less repetition and practice at doing the mechanics.
I had six years of Saxon math, and probably did upwards of 700 30-problem problem sets. After that kind of repetition and consistent grading, showing work was instinctive, I'd seen it lesson after lesson presented the same way, and had to do it thousands and thousands of times. Other math curricula I've seen require far, far less repetition and practice at doing the mechanics.