Home Activities Dr. Robin Kay UOIT

Giving Home Activities Typical pattern:  Assign questions from textbook  Even number questions (with no answers)  Checked in a cursory manner at best You need to purposefully select problems  Practicing Skills  Laying groundwork for next day Often a challenge question  Completing/Summarizing a rich problem done in class You can use many of the consolidation activities

Giving Home Activities Practicing Skills  If you understand concepts, 3-5 problems is probably enough  If you don’t understand, 3-5 problems is enough to know that you need to get help  BUT you might give more for basic skills like multiplication tables

Checking Home Activities Strategy 1  Students put problems on board and check Strategy 2  Ask which problems are most difficult; asks students to put them on the board Strategy 3  Students discuss, check and correct work in groups Strategy 4  Students hand in work and teacher assesses

Final Thoughts Do I really need to assign homework? Are the home activities worthwhile? Will the home activities enhance learning/teaching? Will the home activities assist me in making reasonable inferences about a student’s progress