I second that. One of the drawback of writing slow, is that children often miss what's written on the board and unfortunately at times, teachers forget this.
Currently, to make the writing interesting, I take short children stories and print it out on cursive font (dotted) and make him write over it and read it later, this is done as an time bound activity. I need to wait few more weeks to see the results of this exercise.
Same here, but I find that questions on precedence often pop up during the interview process and the interviewer wants to know details and he is not satisfied with the parens.