I am asking this because I want to know what kind of workload is expected from a math instructor. Answer these other questions too
2) Does your teacher assign online homework?
3) Does you teacher collect homework everyday,once every week, or on another routine schedule?
4) How does your teacher grade your homework?
In my math class, the average that each student takes to do their homework every night is about one hour. My teacher doesn’t assign online homework and collects our homework every day. Our homework is graded on whether or not you completed it for two points. Occasionally, my teacher will have surprise homework check quizzes that are worth about eight points.
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:58 am
In my math class, the average that each student takes to do their homework every night is about one hour. My teacher doesn’t assign online homework and collects our homework every day. Our homework is graded on whether or not you completed it for two points. Occasionally, my teacher will have surprise homework check quizzes that are worth about eight points.
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My Algebra II Honors math class
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I went to a public school that didn’t have high academic standards, but I had an excellent math teacher. When I was in high school, we had about 30 problems a night. I’d say 25 drew from concepts we’d learned in class that day, and 5 pushed you to use the concepts we’d learned and extrapolate a bit…
Our teacher collected our written work at the beginning of class every day, and he then asked for questions about the homework.
He checked each problem and gave us a score, but if very few people did well or there were a lot of questions, he’d give you credit for doing the work without counting the ones you missed against you.
In college, I took a calculus class with a professor that had the same idea. We met Monday Wednesday and Friday, so Monday she gave an assignment that was due Friday. You did the most of the assignment by Tuesday night, so if you had questions, you could ask them Wednesday and turn it in by Friday. On Wednesday, she gave the assignment due the next Monday. On Friday she gave the assignment due Wednesday. She had office hours on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, so that helped too. I guess you could apply this to a high school class that meets every day if you gave the assignment on Monday and made it due Wednesday. She collected homework every day we met except on test days. For "homework" due on test days, she had us review our old homework assignments and turn in corrections.
Both of these teachers were very helpful. I think the fact that they both allow for questions and dialogue around a subject that is very difficult for a lot of people to understand is no coincidence. It’s great that they encouraged me to use assignments as a way to learn and study rather than get a grade.
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February 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Not enough. I would start to get what he was explaining but since I didn’t do very much homework or work on math outside of class I didn’t learn it very well. Most of my math teachers had us show the work which can be a royal pain but it DOES help to know where you went wrong. Mostly I was so messy that I would make simple errors because of it. I can’t remember how often the teachers collected my homework. I had to take math in college and FINALLY learned algebra so well that I got paid to tutor it! If I can learn it, you can too.
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