Really? I just took off over half the points for probles that I couldn't easily read until handwriting improved. Students with illegible chicken scratch suddenl

Really? I just took off over half the points for probles that I couldn't easily read until handwriting improved. Students with illegible chicken scratch suddenly developed perfectly readable handwriting overnight. End of problem. For my part, I write two very clear faces, an italic for my prose, and a block for my math. Writing clearly isn't difficult. The vast majority of people are already capable of it. Most of them at some point internalized that they had bad handwriting, perhaps rationalized because they were writing fast, and so write poorly because it's an element of their identity. As for tau, I could see using a symbol for 2pi removing a class of error when I'm calculating, so I might adopt it. However, I doubt I'd use pi. More likely ð.