Which is a bit silly because there are well established mathmatical protocols for explaining how and why you did something. They don't include writing sentence and paragraphs.
Preaching to the choir, my friend. DS8 had a test problem last year that amounted to "Which of the following numbers is an even number and why?"
DS:
"14, because it is an even number."
The "correct" answer:
"14, because the four in the ones place is an even number."
You can't even make up this stuff. I had to ask why the correct answer was acceptable but his was not, and it was all about knowing that four was an even number.
We're mathy peeps and DS does it in his head, so it is particularly annoying to him to have to write a sentence explaining stuff he just knows. Also annoying: timed math facts; deadly slow processing speed (21%) makes that a whole other nightmare. Thank heavens this year's teacher doesn't do that!
