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- From: Sara.Meeker@f9.n3400.z1.fidonet.org (Sara Meeker)
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- Subject: DOING HOMEWORK IN SCH
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:20:00 PDT
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- * In a message originally to Sheila King, Jerry Saville said:
- > -> I think the lack of homework is more inclined to be associated with
- > -> our age group (middle school).
-
-
- > Your conversation has sparked my interest!
- > I am a student at Southern Nazerene University (Bethany
- > Oklahoma) and
- > am studying to be a math teacher. Middle school has always
- > been my target
- > area. I must agree that instruction should not be for the
- > first 20 minuites
- > of the class, leaving the rest for doing "homework",
- > however, if I cannot
- > expect my students to do the work... Where do we go from
- > here??
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- Concerning the topic of homework in math, I would like to tell you
- that my students only have 10 or 15 minutes for homework. This is
- my first year teaching Algebra to 8th graders. They don't know how
- to use more than 15 to 20 minutes of homework time anyway. It is
- more important to guide them trough definitions and similar
- problems. Then they have less questions.
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