About Math Homework
Homework is an important link between learning inside and outside school. Homework assignments produce reinforcement of the work students do in math class. Here are some suggestions for making the homework experience successful:
Investigations 3 in numbers, data, and space, grade 4. (2017). Glenview, IL: Pearson Scott Foresman.
Homework is an important link between learning inside and outside school. Homework assignments produce reinforcement of the work students do in math class. Here are some suggestions for making the homework experience successful:
- Set a regular time every day for homework and establish a quiet place to work
- Establish a system for bringing homework back and forth from school.
- Students will bring home the materials and directions needed to do homework activities. Certain materials will be used again and again throughout the year. Because these materials will be sent home only once, please help your child find a safe place to store them. If your child does homework in more than one home, please let me know so I can provide enough materials.
- In our math class, students explore problems in depth and share their reasoning and solutions. Is is most important that children accurately and efficiently sold math problems using problem-solving methods that are meaningful to them. At home, encourage your child to explain his or her strategies and mathematical ideas to you.
- What is the problem asking you to figure out?
- Does this remind you of other problems?
- What part of the problem do you already know how to solve?
- What is a good place to start?
- What have you figured out so far?
- Would a drawing or diagram help?
- How can I help you (without telling you the answer)?
Investigations 3 in numbers, data, and space, grade 4. (2017). Glenview, IL: Pearson Scott Foresman.