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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school, Algebra pilot students are not allowed to submit homework until [b]after[/b] the unit test. Not sure whether homework is graded after that point, since no homework grade has been entered in the system yet.

Is this how it works in High School too?[/quote]

No!  This is bananas and sounds like a poorly designed course.  Homework should be graded and handed back regularly.  How else is the student going to understand where they are going wrong- and the teacher also needs to understand what concepts the students are collectively missing.  My middle school child in a 6th grade Alg I program was assigned a huge amount of weekly homework problems.  They would turn them in weekly, get them graded and handed back, and would have the opportunity to make corrections to receive half credit back for corrections made.

[b]However, my high schooler in upper level math (calc+) didn’t have homework corrected.  It was checked for completeness though. The problems with assigned were those with the answers in the back of book so students could check they are getting right answers and understanding concepts.[/b] [/quote]

Bolded seems like what they might be doing at our school. But, so far, no feedback whatsoever (on completeness or being done correctly). Solutions are sometimes posted, however, homework has never been discussed in the classroom. And students are not allowed to submit anything until the end of the unit.

So, students are responsible for holding onto their completed work and submit it on the day of the unit test. We were told if they somehow forget to bring it all on that day (even if left in their home classroom, backpack or whatever), they are not allowed to retrieve it. Then, they are marked as being late with their homework.

I suppose this is ok if this is how Middle Schools and High Schools operate. I just find it all a bit unfriendly and odd. Based on some of the responses here, it seems not all ES Algebra pilots are this way either.
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This sounds terrible and not developmentally appropriate for 6th grade[/quote]

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