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[quote=Anonymous]Homework is worthless.

Those who do it don’t need it.
Those who need it don’t do it, or do it all incorrectly (because they can’t do it independently), or copy.
The papers I get back can’t be counted for a grade because I don’t know who did them.

The vast majority of math work I collected when I assigned homework was copied straight from photomath. Worthless for everyone—the copier and the grader. Maaaaaybe 10% of kids benefited from it. That’s being generous though.

I’ve stopped assigning it. In my 90 minute block we do the lesson and I assign an activity/problem set. If they finish it in class (my strong students all do) then there’s no homework—they don’t need it. If they don’t finish it, they come back during the remediation block to finish it with me. They also have no homework, because they don’t know how to do it well enough to do at home (and I won’t be able to trust anything they return anyway)

If the rare kid wants extra practice I have posted problem sets to schoology. There is usually 1 each year who requests more work due to intense anxiety, and a few more who want work to do with their tutors.

Cutting hw has had no impact on test scores IME

—HS math teacher[/quote]

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