What's your view on the concept of homework, the amount and kind that should be given, etc?

@Picklebobble2 Of course, most homework isn't necessarily research. Some of it is novel reading for English class, essay-writing, math problems, worksheets, etc. But the internet does make it much easier to learn, to cheat, to check your work, or whatever it is you are tying to do as a student.

@33person Problem with homework is those who give it to you rarely explain HOW to go about doing it.

@Picklebobble2 Yeah, as someone who wants to teach math at the college level, I know that defeats the whole purpose if someone spends a few hours doing problems and either gets like only 2 problems done or does 50 of them and gets all 50 answers wrong. If you're assigning that at that point in time without making sure the students understand the lesson well-enough to do the problems, then I don't know what the purpose of the assignment is.

@33person Yeah, Mathematics is all about understanding processes and procedures well enough to enable you to tackle a problem.
If you don't understand the former you've no hope of achieving the latter.

@Picklebobble2 Once you understand the processes and procedures well-enough, at that point, what's your opinion on how much practice students should be [i]required [/i]to do?

@33person Oooh !!...Horrible question !!
I mean once you have new information and understand it, revision should be ongoing (in an ideal world)
I guess when it comes down to it, is there EVER enough ??

@Picklebobble2 Well, there is a finite amount of time in a day, so the question is how much they should be required to do for homework in a night. But no, there's never enough practice. Just what's your answer to that horrible quetion?

@33person As a figure out of thin air i'd say 30 minutes a day ?
Given that there will be other subjects requiring equal consideration on any given day ? With the expectation that the homework being set would probably be due back in a two or three days ?

@Picklebobble2 Are you asking me or telling me, sir?

@33person ....Suggesting ?

@Picklebobble2 ¿

@33person I don't know how much homework is being given by how many teachers on any given day and what the expectation is.

.....There's a maths question in there somewhere !

@Picklebobble2 The reality is that there is no expectation. It's all over the place, depending on individual teachers' styles. In fifth grade (in the U.S., so ages 10-11) I had a teacher that would give several pages of math homework, amounting to about an hours' worth each night. In ninth grade, I had a teacher who gave maybe 15 minutes of math(s) homework per night.

@33person AHH ! Then there's your problem !
How many NEW topics do you cover each week ?

@Picklebobble2 It depends so much on the particular class. But let's say, on average, 2-3 lessons from a book per week.

@33person Well. Maths is a factual class. Personally i think facts are probably of more importance than....creativity ? (Art; English Literature etc) (NOT that those subjects are worthy of any LESSER attention. Just perhaps in terms of homework not quite so often) so it's probably worth 30 minutes a night