Originally Posted by Dottie
While calculators can be a crutch, I suspect my own son didn't finish that first year (math/Explore) because he was in his stubborn "do it in his head...no calculator, no scratch paper phase". (He was barely 8 at the time.)
We have a similar problem with dd#2. She insists that her paper has to be neat and freaks out about leaving her work. She erases it over and over. I told her not to erase her work on her scratch paper & that she wasn't being judged on how neat the paper is.

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