I’m just a mom, but isn’t the whole point of showing your work to ensure that one understands the process of problem solving and individual statements of fact? Otherwise kids (like my son) would just copy the answer from the answer key and learn nothing. How is that “anti-racist”? So let’s encourage most kids not to actually learn? Bravo…
I’m just a mom, but isn’t the whole point of showing your work to ensure that one understands the process of problem solving and individual statements of fact? Otherwise kids (like my son) would just copy the answer from the answer key and learn nothing. How is that “anti-racist”? So let’s encourage most kids not to actually learn? Bravo. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, propagated by a body of dunces who don’t under stand the real life necessity of mathematics in so many facets of modern life. As a mom, my children will be required to show their work FOREVER.
Showing your work also means you can explain it to someone else, and spread the knowledge around. It's also very, very helpful for kids like I was: a math prodigy for whom the correct answers would pop into my head with no clear explanation for how they got there and I honestly had a hard time explaining how I knew what the answer was. Without being made to explain WHY something was correct, I would have collapsed the second I ran into the one branch of mathematics I seem allergic to: statistics and probabilities. Even a gifted kid benefits from being compelled to show their work.
I think we need to grapple with the *fact* that there are some people that you can instruct on certain topics dozens of times and in dozens of different ways and they still cannot grasp them. And that inability to grasp concepts can be for a myriad of reasons. Some emotional, some intellectual, some medical, some personality disordered, etc., and often combinations of all of these factors. Yet the “woke” demand seems to be that we grind *everyone* down to this level of ineffectuality. Lowest common denominator as cure all for all of society’s ills.
I’m just a mom, but isn’t the whole point of showing your work to ensure that one understands the process of problem solving and individual statements of fact? Otherwise kids (like my son) would just copy the answer from the answer key and learn nothing. How is that “anti-racist”? So let’s encourage most kids not to actually learn? Bravo. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, propagated by a body of dunces who don’t under stand the real life necessity of mathematics in so many facets of modern life. As a mom, my children will be required to show their work FOREVER.
Showing your work also means you can explain it to someone else, and spread the knowledge around. It's also very, very helpful for kids like I was: a math prodigy for whom the correct answers would pop into my head with no clear explanation for how they got there and I honestly had a hard time explaining how I knew what the answer was. Without being made to explain WHY something was correct, I would have collapsed the second I ran into the one branch of mathematics I seem allergic to: statistics and probabilities. Even a gifted kid benefits from being compelled to show their work.
I think we need to grapple with the *fact* that there are some people that you can instruct on certain topics dozens of times and in dozens of different ways and they still cannot grasp them. And that inability to grasp concepts can be for a myriad of reasons. Some emotional, some intellectual, some medical, some personality disordered, etc., and often combinations of all of these factors. Yet the “woke” demand seems to be that we grind *everyone* down to this level of ineffectuality. Lowest common denominator as cure all for all of society’s ills.