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Re:Ask HN : How to teach children to write fast? on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @12:47PM (#1475406)
I second that. One of the drawback of writing slow, is that children often miss what's written on the board and unfortunately at times, teachers forget this.
Re:Ask HN : How to teach children to write fast? on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @12:45PM (#1475403)
Currently, to make the writing interesting, I take short children stories and print it out on cursive font (dotted) and make him write over it and read it later, this is done as an time bound activity. I need to wait few more weeks to see the results of this exercise.

Ask HN : How to teach children to write fast?

People, What is the best way to teach children to write and read fast. My son, who is studying in primary, is little slow in his writing and he is not able to keep pace with teacher writing speed. He is having slight problem in his vision, suffering from spherical aberration.

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Re:Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @05:57AM (#1474355)
Same here, but I find that questions on precedence often pop up during the interview process and the interviewer wants to know details and he is not satisfied with the parens.
Re:Wolfram on Alan Turing's birthday. on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @05:53AM (#1454532)
It's now fixed. Thanks.