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Originally Posted by Gayle
I remember when I was at school and you used to get marks for showing how you'd worked out the answer even if you got the wrong answer - surely that system wasn't right either. I mean, I'd far rather have the correct change by someone using mechanical means than them saying to me that their long division looked good.
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From what I remember it was to prove you had worked out the problem and how you did it. If you just stuck the answer down without the working out you could have copied it. A long problem might have a dozen calculations within it so we were marked for each stage. If you messed up the last bit you lost marks for that bit and the answer being wrong. I do agree that it is a little odd that you can get marks for a wrong answer.