I have no idea what I would ask for here, in an IEP, but clearly with kids who have difficulty, a lot of scaffolding may be needed to convince them to do it. DD is better about this now-- but far from what I'd call awesome. It burned her in calc and chemistry during her first few midterms in college, by the way.
And I rubbed her nose in it. Yes, I did. Because I've been telling her for years.
With that said-- does he understand WHY he must write out his work? That is, does he understand that it's not for his own benefit, but that of a third party to follow what his brain is doing? That really did help my DD to understand WHY she was doing it, and helped her to differentiate what needed to be on the page. Well, it helped, anyway.
If you go to a large state school, you don't have to worry about showing your work in calc/physics etc.
You just have to get the right answer on the multiple choice tests.
One problem with showing your work is that it sometimes makes you partially unable to *do* the work, since you don't necessarily know *how* you do it, you just do it automatically and get the correct answer.
