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Take few questions and comments from students. Use simple examples as illustrations-ones that will help students understand the skill being learned. Explain what students will do and how they will do it.

Why is today’s work important? How does it connect with previous work? How does this skill/concept fit into the big picture?

Introduce the main idea of the lesson.

Both of these strategies keep the bulk of the math work–the practice, problem-solving, and higher level thinking that require support and coaching–where they belong: in the classroom! When teaching a simple lesson, use a three-part plan. So what does it look like when math instruction doesn’t revolve around homework? There are two suggestions I’d like to offer in this post: 1) Use a simple three-part lesson plan and 2) Use fun projects that last multiple days. It’s a vicious homework doom loop that’s hard to escape once it gets going. Poor teaching leads to struggles with homework, struggles with homework lead to more time spent correcting/fixing it, which in turn leads to poor teaching.

When the bulk of a class period is spent correcting and reviewing homework, little time is left to teach the next concept.

What takes 15 minutes in school can easily take an hour at home when a student is exhausted.

Late afternoons and evenings are even worse. We all know how hard it is for kids (and teachers) to engage in lively and productive work at the end of the school day. Appropriately challenging work requires good energy.Appropriately challenging work requires the coaching of a good teacher. Few students have access to high-quality math support at home.Talking with other parents and educators has led me to the conclusion that in too many math classrooms almost all teaching and learning revolves around homework. My children have developed more of a fixed mindset and have learned to dislike math in the years when homework is too much of a focus. Some grades have been better than others, but in the bad years, there can be regular meltdowns.

I also know that 10 minutes of work for one student can be an hour of work for another.Īs a parent, I’ve watched my own children struggle over the years with unwieldy math homework. Then again, assignments that are challenging don’t work either since I’m not there to support students when they need coaching. I hate the idea of busywork, so work that seems too easy feels like a waste of time.

I have always struggled with assigning math homework.