BTW our DS7 is a classic case of over-verbalizing math (poor kid). He doesn't yet have a sense of what is necessary to write and what is not. His online classes have an offline portion of a test to be written in a workbook and graded by a parent using a rubric (then entering the score online).
For example in one problem where he wrote "The answer in 12.345." he then drew an arrow pointing to the number and wrote "I wanted to make sure you realized that the first `dot' is a decimal point and the second `dot' is a period (full stop)."
In another problem involving pie charts he wrote "I had to write the word `strawberries' diagonally because I couldn't fit it any other way."
We've told him he doesn't need to write that sort of stuff, but at least he's getting into the practice of writing something.
On the other hand, he omits some of the expected show-worky stuff, and doesn't always follow the instructions carefully enough. ETA If a question says "Write an equation for the following problem and solve it: `Mary has three more than twice as many apples as Lucy. Mary has eleven apples. How many apples does Lucy have?' ", he'll just write "4" in contrast to the above examples of gratuitous verbosity.
And while he can zip through an online multi-choice test (solving simple equations like 2x+3=11 in his head), when it comes to written stuff it can be excruciatingly slow.
It's a work in progress. We're not going to let writing deficiencies slow him down, but we're going to work on them too.
Last edited by 22B; 11/27/13 09:34 PM.
