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 SK> Well, I can't think of anything else to say about this right now.
 SK> However, I do have some ideas about positive incentives for homework.

I have been following this homework discussion with interest. Even as much as 10 years ago, teachers were not requiring a lot of homework from my own children....and rarely anything interesting. I think homework needs to be interesting...at least sometimes. However, one of the best incentives to actually do homework was used by college algebra teacher. For every 20 problems worked from any section of the current test coverage (this was sometimes 8 sections), he would add 1/2 point to the test score. If you
 did 20 problems in each section you could rack up quite a little help for the next text. Of course, if you have worked twenty problems (and that meant with every step written out...and he graded and returned promptly, too!) on a particular topic, you probably won't need the extra points on the test! Another thing he did that made tests less terrifying (I am not one of those people who looks forward to test day!) was provide a sample test that contained problems exactly like the real test. These were all w
orked in class and any last minute questions answered. He *never* put a type of problem on the real test that we had not already covered in the sample test. I learned more math from him in one semester than I learned in six in high school.

Judy



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