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<blockquote data-quote="meowbunny" data-source="post: 78504" data-attributes="member: 3626"><p>He truly has my sympathy. I'm one of those who has no clue how I get the answer in math, I just do. I can remember an almost-daily battle with my calculus teacher about showing the work (previously, I -- not my parents -- would meet with the teachers at the beginning of the year and explain this and show them what I knew to date. It worked for most of them, but not this teacher. He was adamant I show my work. Try as I might, I couldn't do it. I could give him the answer, but I couldn't show it. The same was true with diagramming a sentence. I could tell you all the parts but I couldn't diagram it. </p><p></p><p>After the first quarter and my first ever bad grade in math, my father went and talked to th calculus teacher. It took him three hours to convince that teacher that I truly couldn't do it and I had to spend another hour proving I wasn't coming up with the answers by cheating. After that, he would try to help me show the work and when it was obviously not getting through to me even though I had the answer, he would simply grade me on my answers.</p><p></p><p>I hope he did get the help he needed and can now show his work. For some of us, the spatial diagram in any form is just painful to deal with.</p><p></p><p>As to losing his cool pass, I'd simply make up a bunch of them and give them to him as needed. ADHD kids (and adults) are notorious for losing anything not permanently attached. Not their fault, just the nature of their beast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meowbunny, post: 78504, member: 3626"] He truly has my sympathy. I'm one of those who has no clue how I get the answer in math, I just do. I can remember an almost-daily battle with my calculus teacher about showing the work (previously, I -- not my parents -- would meet with the teachers at the beginning of the year and explain this and show them what I knew to date. It worked for most of them, but not this teacher. He was adamant I show my work. Try as I might, I couldn't do it. I could give him the answer, but I couldn't show it. The same was true with diagramming a sentence. I could tell you all the parts but I couldn't diagram it. After the first quarter and my first ever bad grade in math, my father went and talked to th calculus teacher. It took him three hours to convince that teacher that I truly couldn't do it and I had to spend another hour proving I wasn't coming up with the answers by cheating. After that, he would try to help me show the work and when it was obviously not getting through to me even though I had the answer, he would simply grade me on my answers. I hope he did get the help he needed and can now show his work. For some of us, the spatial diagram in any form is just painful to deal with. As to losing his cool pass, I'd simply make up a bunch of them and give them to him as needed. ADHD kids (and adults) are notorious for losing anything not permanently attached. Not their fault, just the nature of their beast. [/QUOTE]
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