Ben had been given some math problems on Tuesday and was told he was to have them finished correctly today. That meant that he could give them to me beforehand and I would be happy to review his work and let him know if would need to make further modifications.
Wednesday I asked him about the problems and he assured me he had them under control.
Today I asked him to go to the white board and show me the work. He had done the first one quite differently then I had. Initially I thought he was doing something wrong but then realized he was correct and his answer (thought more complicated mathematically) presented clearer answer. We also took a different approach on the second problem. Careful reading of the problem indicated that he produced the correct answer and I did not. Before going on to the third program I looked at his paper and found it had little connection to the work he was doing on the board. Huh? The written work was nearly incoherent and wrong.
We went to Excel and clearly outline the steps and verify our computation. Then I asked him to redo the work for Monday in the form that I expected. I explained this was the last time he would be bring such low quality work to the table on Friday.
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