#EduRead: Homework: A Math Dilemma

This week's article is "Homework: A Math Dilemma and What to do About It". The homework issue is typically a topic that comes up about this time every year as teachers starting reflecting on the 13-14 school year and brainstorming how to improve for the upcoming year.

My Thoughts:

• It all sounds nice.
• I'm not going to do it.
• I did not assign homework this year and I did not miss it.
• I always feel guilty about this.
  

After reading the archived conversation:

• If assigning differentiated hw, or allowing students to pick a certain amount to complete, you would have built in reviews for tests: go back and complete the problems you didn't do before.
• Would students complete homework based on past concepts that they should have mastered which also builds fluency and retention?
• What if you created 1-2 problems per learning style and asked them to complete problems from two styles? You could create a template of sorts.
• Resource: Homework Rubric
• Resource: Do you have a boring worksheet that you want to make more interesting?
• Resource: Conceptualizing Drills
• Grade using peer feedback or self assessment?
• Students discuss answers together and collaborate to create the answer key, verified later by teacher- prompts discussion of who was right and why