I was talking to a few young teenagers who attend other schools in different districts. I work with these teenagers at a dance studio in Eagan, mn. I asked them about how much homework they receive a night, especially for math since I am a math teacher. I found that they would get about three hours a night for all of their classes and on average, 30-40 math problems a night. I was shocked to hear the number of math problems they were doing because I only assign about 10-15 max and usually give ten minutes of work time at the end of class. Most of my students bring home 5-7 homework problems a night. Funny thing about this is I came across this arrival and wanted to share.
How much homework do you assign? Is it meaningful and have a purpose? Or do you find it being a time filler? Thoughts.....
The interesting artical I found and a good read.
http://www.greatschools.org/students/homework-help/251-homework-is-too-much.gs
I am having issues to get the link to work. This is my first time blogging from an I-pad! Will fix later
Fancy an ipad......lucky girl.
ReplyDeleteI assign homework that is less work but more meaningful. They are questions that cover what they just learned (5-10 questions). Other types of homework that I find helpful is reading a section before I teach it, makes teaching the next day very effective. Also writting up labs so can use lab days more productive.
I am not a teacher that assigns pointless homework, it usually is for a learning, and good cause :-)