How much math homework did you have each night in around 5th grade (age 10-11)?

My teacher that year gave us a workbook page (20ish problems), a problem-solving page (8 word problems), and usually a riddle worksheet or something else (like 10-15 more problems) every night. In 6th grade, I only had like 5 problems total each night. So much depends on the individual teacher you have.

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TwiddlerofThumbs · F

lots from what I remember.
But it was assigned pages out of our math books so I don;t recall any specifics in types of problems.
In fact, for me it was the first yer I really had homework.

33person · 26-30, M

@TwiddlerofThumbs We started having homework in first grade, but in first grade, we only had homework in one subject per night. It never took more than 20 minutes.

TwiddlerofThumbs · F

@33person my kids too. But the second grade teachers really pissed me off. What second graders need 2 hours of homework a night? And it only let up when we left the school district for one hundreds of miles away.

33person · 26-30, M

@TwiddlerofThumbs Yeah, I think 45 minutes is plenty for 2nd grade, on heavy nights.

TwiddlerofThumbs · F

@33person I can see reading to be useful to a 2nd grader. I would be willing to even say that an extended learning environment is a healthy thing when done through play or a way to make it interactive and fun. But homework is bullshit at that age.

33person · 26-30, M

@TwiddlerofThumbs Reading definitely. Maybe practicing spelling words and math facts a little.