<p>The curriculum is big on story problems & for my daughter who is dyslexic this posed an obstacle- because the written explanation was given more credit than if the answer was correct.</p>
<p>To my mind, this is analogous to writing an essay and having to explain* why* you used that preposition/adjective/semi-colon.
Dyslexia affects sequencing & a story problem in mathematics is not written sequentially, part of the challenge is to determine in which order to calculate the solution.</p>
<p>If you have already mastered the strategies, then you can go on to more difficult problems, but trying to do too many things at once, will confuse and frustrate the student and even if they intuitively are able to calculate the answer, if they aren’t able to explain how they know, the answer is still incorrect.
Seems much more time efficent to teach the problems without the verbiage before going on to requiring the explanation.</p>