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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is so sad to read 3rd grade teachers posting they no longer assign homework. Research has shown assigning math homework is helpful. I used to teach third grade and every day we had a math quiz on whatever times table the student was working on right before lunch. I graded them during lunch and my students got 100 problems on that number for homework. So if the student took on 6's and passed they got 100 problems of multiplying 7. If they didn't pass they got 100 problems of multiplying 6's.

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Good Lord that sounds nuts. Why not just keep them in school for another hour? What if they went home and practiced 100 problems incorrectly?

In FCPS grades k-6, homework doesn’t count towards the academic grade.

It was nice of you to work through your lunch.

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It doesn't take long to answer 100 one digit by one digit multiplication problems. Let's say a student was on their 6's - they aleady know 6 times 1-5, they just need to learn 6x6, 6x7, 6x 8, and 6x 9. They had a multiplication chart glued to their homework folder. My students realized they could copy the answers but it is quicker to start remembering them. It would take the students 15 minutes to start with and they got quicker once they memorized them.  Out of around 24 students I taught each year usually 22 students were able to pass a test to complete 100 problems in 5 minutes. When they did I made a huge deal about it- I took them to get an ice cream sundae after school, I printed a certificate, took a picture and printed it out. The other two students who didn't pass, one was because they didn't do homework and the other usually had some special needs. Once they passed multiplication, I moved  on to division, then square numbers to 16 (16 x 16) then practice quickly reducing fractions.

I worked with a majority of immigrant, English-language learners. Their parents were thrilled with the homework because they understood what needed to get done and they saw the value in it. I also made sure I taught the standard algorithm for addition, subtraction, and multiplication.  They would come and complain that their older kids didnt really know all their math facts. I had an identical twin and the parent complained the twin that wasn't in my class wasn't learning his times table and begged me to send home math practice for him too. [/quote]

Wrote memorization. Could they apply it? Did they actually understand what they were doing or just spitting out memorized fractions?

So the special needs student didn't get any ice cream?[/quote]

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