Math Home work??

It’s true that we are doing homework in our entire student life. When I was growing up, I used to do worksheets, book reports, essays, major projects term papers and dioramas. My mom always told me to complete my homework before dinner and I think that was the most boring but effective task of my student life. But, the question is how important homework is for educating a child? is homework harmful or helpful?  Is it just wastage of time, as many learners claim, that just eats up their energy and time for no real purpose?

In the view of homework as supportive, many educators think that is a part of the strategy of building up understanding between lesson and student.  Several studies showing that, homework helps build study and learning habits (Lindsay, Nye, Cooper, & Greathouse, 1998; Gorges and Elliot, 1999; Cooper, 1989).  They also found out a point that 30-45 min homework of every day in high school level can boost a student’s GPA (Keith 1992).  Most of the students need experience and time to develop their study habits that support their learning process, and only homework can provide that and that also provide the ability to handle with difficulty and mistakes (Bempechat, 2004).

But it’s also true that homework is not helpful for every student and every situation. When we are considering the of homework is harmful for students, speaker and author Alfie Kohn states that there’s no genuine evidence showing homework as a beneficiary elementary for a student.

He also wrote that, he found no connection between improved standardized assessment scores and homework. Concerning secondary students, he mentioned that there is an insignificant correlation between improving grades and test scores and homework but there is no proof that the progress is because of doing homework rather than additional activities. He also mentioned that there is no evidence that the homework benefits learners in other ways like independence or self discipline, good study habits, he could find no drawback to eliminating or even reducing homework altogether.

So, what is you answer – is homework harmful or helpful? Should we throw homework out altogether or continue current practices? ). So, if we want the top results, we will keep doing homework within a definite time for building up a good habit of learning. Excess is always bad and student should not spend more time by doing homework.