When you think back to your school days, or even if you’re still in school, you likely sat through numerous lectures, then went home and worked on math or science problems on your own. Now, some ...

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Southridge High teacher Katie Wilkinson flipped her pre-calculus classroom last year, and it worked so well, she's sticking with it this year. Instead of the traditional method of teaching a lesson in ...

Homework is effective when classroom learning is transferred beyond the school walls. When teaching the concept of area, have students measure the area of a refrigerator shelf to determine what size ...

Ethan Anderson’s eighth-grade algebra class at Dakota Meadows Middle School begins with what most would consider to be homework. After completing a preliminary quiz based on the lesson the kids ...

Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math problems, spelling lists and life’s little injustices. But one Arizona mom is tossing the rulebook — and a few answers — right ...

When students in one math class at Beaufort Elementary School sit down to their homework each night, they aren't cracking the textbooks and laboring over problem sets. Instead, they're watching an ...

Cathy Vatterott is an associate professor of education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A former middle school teacher and principal, Vatterott learned first-hand about homework struggles as ...

University of Stirling provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on ...

We tend to think of homework as a necessary part of learning, a practice that teaches children discipline and keeps them from idleness. Yet a growing body of research reveals an astonishing truth: ...

Parents and children battle about homework all the time -- and this mom just wants to get it done. DimaBerlin - stock.adobe.com Homework: the nightly battlefield where parents and kids clash over math ...