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Homework remains a staple of many students’ educational experiences. But what do we know about the rationale for why teachers and schools assign it? The results of a recent survey by the EdWeek ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

I still remember sitting at my little desk as a kindergartner stacking blocks, thinking that having 12 years left in school was an eternity. As I stand on the doorstep of my high school graduation, I ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been declining. A few days into the new semester this January, the ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

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Math homework is one of those things that can go smoothly…right up until one tiny mistake turns the whole problem into chaos. Excel in Microsoft 365 is a surprisingly good math homework helper when ...

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Earlier in my career, I consistently assigned what many of us think of as traditional math homework: a worksheet with 20 similar problems or a textbook page full of several repetitive problems. This ...

Math jokes are the topic of our blog post today! We’ve all been there, staring down a complex equation, scratching our heads over a tricky word problem, or just slogging through the academic ritual ...