Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by ConnectingDots
... 6x72. "X, you must communicate how you arrived at the answer."

The work, of course, was in his head. Sigh.

Hmm. She wrote "communicate" how he got the answer, so he could write, "I did it in my head." Yesterday DD9 had to communicate how she arrive at the answer to something like 88,645/17 and she wrote, "I did long division." We will see how that works out. smile

I did notice that she wrote "communicate" and that gives me hope! At a minimum, he could write it out as a problem. Ex. 6x72=432 (and show where he carried) Or, we can try "did it in my head." She does seem far better at getting where he is at than the last teacher.

You bring up a great point about how much individual teachers know/don't know about a subject.