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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many hours your kid spends on homework is mostly based on how quickly they work. A really fast kid will spend much less time on homework. It’s not just time management or motivation… it’s how fast do they read, write/type, and think. [/quote]

Not really. The level of challenge is a huge leap from middle school. Kids who were always fast workers need to take much more time to get things right. And for some subjects there is just a very large volume to get through (eg precalc or functions)[/quote]

Homework is mostly not graded, just checked, so it's only as long as you make it [/quote]

Except if you really want to do well in class, the practice that homework gives you is important.[/quote]

If you can't learn the material while still getting sleep at night, thats a pretty solid indication that the curriculum moves too quickly for you.

But for math specifically, the teachers assigned much more repetitive homework than is required for learning -- 10 variants of the same problem instead of 5. (And that is why its not required to complete. It's better to assign more non-required work and let kids stop when they get bored, than to risk assigning too little work and hope that kids are motivated to do extra practice on their own if they need it.)[/quote]

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