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Related but different: What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

A (former) student of mine (no longer! Thankfully passed his Trigonometry regents last week:) had a problem with his handwriting -- I am not exaggerating when I say that at times, he would not be able to read what he wrote 30 seconds before.
The student is in 11th grade, around 16-17 years old.

Needless to say, this was a problem for a number of reasons:

• Occasionally, as I watched him solve a problem, he would misinterpret work he had done on a problem earlier, thereby finding a wrong answer, when he really understood the material and did all the right work (what a waste!)
• While not verified, this probably also caused problems with teachers grading tests -- I would imagine that sometimes they might not understand what he wrote, and taking off points either for wrong answer (as in above example) or for lack of work.

Question: What should a Mathematics Educator (either teacher or tutor) tell a student with this problem to do to fix this?

Related but different: What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

A (former) student of mine (no longer! Thankfully passed his Trigonometry regents last week:) had a problem with his handwriting -- I am not exaggerating when I say that at times, he would not be able to read what he wrote 30 seconds before.
The student is in 11th grade, around 16-17 years old.

Needless to say, this was a problem for a number of reasons:

• Occasionally, as I watched him solve a problem, he would misinterpret work he had done on a problem earlier, thereby finding a wrong answer, when he really understood the material and did all the right work (what a waste!)
• While not verified, this probably also caused problems with teachers grading tests -- I would imagine that sometimes they might not understand what he wrote, and taking off points either for wrong answer (as in above example) or for lack of work.

Question: What should a Mathematics Educator (either teacher or tutor) tell a student with this problem to do to fix this?

Related but different: What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

A (former) student of mine (no longer! Thankfully passed his Trigonometry regents last week:) had a problem with his handwriting -- I am not exaggerating when I say that at times, he would not be able to read what he wrote 30 seconds before.

Needless to say, this was a problem for a number of reasons:

• Occasionally, as I watched him solve a problem, he would misinterpret work he had done on a problem earlier, thereby finding a wrong answer, when he really understood the material and did all the right work (what a waste!)
• While not verified, this probably also caused problems with teachers grading tests -- I would imagine that sometimes they might not understand what he wrote, and taking off points either for wrong answer (as in above example) or for lack of work.

Question: What should a Mathematics Educator (either teacher or tutor) tell a student with this problem to do to fix this?

Related but different: What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

A (former) student of mine (no longer! Thankfully passed his Trigonometry regents last week:) had a problem with his handwriting -- I am not exaggerating when I say that at times, he would not be able to read what he wrote 30 seconds before.
The student is in 11th grade, around 16-17 years old.

Needless to say, this was a problem for a number of reasons:

• Occasionally, as I watched him solve a problem, he would misinterpret work he had done on a problem earlier, thereby finding a wrong answer, when he really understood the material and did all the right work (what a waste!)
• While not verified, this probably also caused problems with teachers grading tests -- I would imagine that sometimes they might not understand what he wrote, and taking off points either for wrong answer (as in above example) or for lack of work.

Question: What should a Mathematics Educator (either teacher or tutor) tell a student with this problem to do to fix this?