Can anyone help with advice as to teach my son to show his working in math problem solving. He insists that sometimes he can't, as "I don't know how I solved it". His answer is normally correct. He says that he knows how to "show working" and does when he can. His teacher emailed me detailing that he had given my son detention last week for "refusing" to show his working. He said her suspects he is using "alternative methods" but this will cause him to fail math at school. I know that as maths steps up in difficulty he will have to "show his working", so I would like to assist him if possible, but he is insistent that he "CANNOT" as he does not know how he solved it. Any ideas? He is 13.
I am at my wits end, and more detentions have been threatened.
Stephanie
