show one's work

English

Verb

show one's work (third-person singular simple present shows one's work, present participle showing one's work, simple past showed one's work, past participle shown one's work)

  1. (education) To write out the individual steps that lead to an induction or deduction, especially leading to the solution to a mathematics problem.
    The teacher dinged me for not showing my work.

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