To think DS has THE messiest maths book? -sigh-

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17... and this is his neatest! His teacher is trying her best to not pull her hair out. This is his writing AFTER having to stay in at break to make it neater

It's matrices.

Very neat for matrices.

At least he's bothered to show his working.

TBH - as long as the answer is correct, neatness isn't that big a deal. What's important is the steps to get there and if it's clear how they got there.

It could be really really neat but wrong.

I'd be happy with that.
This is an example of properly messy work (again this is after it's been written out again to make it neater), and even this is better than it was at the start of the year.

That is so neat I would question if he had a clue what he was doing.

i have no clue what any of it means[ failed maths GCSE three times] but it looks neat to me.

Good God....

Honestly, OP. Get a life.

Is this a reverse?

If you think that's bad, you should see how most undergraduate mathematicians write!

Is this a reverse

I was thinking that

Seriously? its not messy.. very neat except for a couple of errors he had to cross out...
Its clear and neat enough to be marked so I am not sure what the teacher wants here. Did he do the exercise well at least? shouldn't that be the concern?
You both should back off in regards to his handwriting.. he is not 6...
Does he know you have posted this?

It looks absolutely fine to me. No problem with that at all. I have seen much worse.

Why on earth do you see your 17 year old's books? Stop hovering over him!

It looks very ordered and neat to me!

I literally could not copy that out as neatly, and I'm 27!

I clicked on this hoping to feel better about my ds's maths presentation. Didn't work.

I was expecting likes everywhere, messy pencil marks. This looks like great work?

I teach a level maths and that is neater than both the lads in my class. No problem at all.

As long as the maths is right, who cares!

I'm surprised at all of the maths teachers saying it's neat compared to their pupils.

This wouldn't have been acceptable at my school (as in, when I was a pupil). I'm still ingrained in 'one digit per box' when working in a maths exercise book!

It is legible though, which is surely the main thing? But I certainly would be a lot neater than this - maybe OP has high standards like I do?!

Has anyone mentioned that it's actually quite neat?

Good grief

🙄

No teacher ever would complain about this work.

We have bigger fish to fry.

Like teaching.

Has to be a weird reverse.

He's in sixth form/college and his teacher's keeping him in at break time to rewrite his work...? Wow...

His handwriting is perfectly acceptable.

What's really eating you, OP?

I'd ask what his bedroom is like but I'm worried you'd probably upload pics.