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#28 Should we ban homework? by Alec, Manisha & Hannah
January 31, 2010 | Tagged Blog, class, Essay | 10 Comments
Alec G
Homework Be Gone! Hooray! No homework! Most kids enjoy the pleasure of not having any math homework. But I say yes to math homework. Math homework is the easiest subject, it’s my favorite, and you always come up with a definite answer.
To start things off, math is the easiest subject. All the methods are explained until you know them backwards. You can easily do homework after you have learned the lesson. If you’re going to ban homework from a subject I’d rather it be Language Arts.
You have to find the hidden meaning and interpret the cause and effect but worst of all grammar. Grammar is as cruel as medieval torture methods. You have to capitalize, punctuate and etc.
Besides being easy, math is my favorite subject. The feeling of turning to a new, crisp page in my math notebook to do my math homework makes me happy. You can always rely on math to stimulate your brain with pleasure.
Finally, math has no hidden meaning. You don’t need to decipher anything or find out things through context clues. Math is straightforward like an arrowhead. You are either right or wrong when it comes to math. There are no partially correct answers like in Language Arts. In conclusion, I think math homework should stay. Its easy, my favorite, and there’s no hidden meaning. Got to go! And do my Math homework!
Manisha Ayyagari
What would happen if your principal decided to ban math homework, possibly forever?
Most people hate math homework but I’m not one of them. I love math homework because it helps me improve my math skills, I don’t forget what I have learned and I don’t get bored while doing math homework.
To start off with, math is a skill that will stay with you forever so you need to be good at math. By doing math homework you improve your skills. For example when you are checking your homework you find mistakes and you learn from them so you won’t make that mistake again.
Have you ever heard the saying “Practice makes perfect”? It’s true if you practice math you will succeed big time. This applies to anything you plan to achieve in. Even an extra 15 minutes a day can help you a lot with math.
Moving forward, when you go home you tend to forget things. It’s the same thing with math when you go home you forget what you have learned in math. If you do math homework your mind will be refreshed and you’ll know what to do the next time you have a test. The disadvantage of not doing math homework is that you forget and you have absolutely no clue what to do when you have to take a test. Not having a hard time doing a test means having math homework.
Proceeding on, when you get bored what do you do? Well there’s really nothing to do. But when you have math homework you are totally occupied and busy. Math homework is like a game when you are trying to figure out equations. It’s as fun as playing video games and there is no way you could possibly get bored. You can even do your math homework with your friends it’s double the fun.
Finally, having math homework helps improve my math skills, I don’t forget what I learned and I don’t get bored while doing math homework. Convinced yet? Join me in my protest to stop the principal from trying to make the wonderful math homework extinct.
Hannah U
“Attention, there will be no more math homework.” To me that sounds like music to my ears. I’m not saying that math homework is bad, it just keeps kids from doing the other things that they need to do like indoor and outdoor activities, sports and clubs, and it keeps kids inside all day.
To start it all off, math keeps us kids from indoor and outdoor activities, such as playing outside, watching movies with friends, shopping, board games, video games, and much, much more. We need to be able to socialize with our friends and be free.
Moving on, keeping up with travel soccer and club meetings can be pretty tough when your loaded with homework. Physical and Mental activities are important in a child’s life. We have got to keep moving. With math homework, there is no time to get up and keep moving.
Last but no least, math homework keeps kids inside all day. We need to be active. Kids need to know what that crisp evening air feels like against their skin. Not dust, flavored drinks, and air conditioning feels like. Sitting inside all day isn’t right when your a kid. We can’t stay inside forever!
You now know why math homework is such a pain! It locks kids up all day and keeps us from doing all our indoor, outdoor, sports, and clubs. If our principal wants to ban math homework, he’s on the right track.
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I think homework should be given in small doses. Especially when you have several Teachers and they do not know what the other Teachers are assigning. I do not want my child doing homework for several hours at night, I think it is wrong.
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I agree with Alec. A reasonable amount of homework is a good thing.
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Hannah, Alec and Manisha nice work the essay is very interesting I love how you say ” No home work ” now that would be awesome , good job guys.
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Ban math homework? Absolutely not! With all the facebooking, my spacing, cell phoning, I Pod listening and cell phone text messaging; there is nothing left to challenge your minds except math homework. It teaches time managemnt and good study habits. Stop whining and complaining, math homework is exactly what you teen agers need. In fact, Ms. Ionno should give you more!
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LOL I totally agree w/ Hannah. I never go outside anymore cuz I have SO MUCH HOMEWORK!!
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I agree with Danae Ward’s comment. I believe that homework should be given in smaller proportions so that it encourages learning, instead of being stressful and discouraging. Large amounts of homework, which includes the weekend, tears down family values, as it leaves no room for quality time. Families are placed in the position to choose between church and homework. Children has no time to go outside and play/exercise, which results in poor health and, therefore, poor learning. The children have no balance and are robbed from experiencing the simple joys of just being kids. I think teachers sometimes forget that quantity does not always equals quality.
Violet
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I think that homework should be put in smaller portions. The teachers do not know what the other teachers are assigning, I have 2 projects due by March! Usually with the homework I get, I barely have any free time.
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Why would anyone want to do homework? I agree with Hannah. My schedule is way to busy to be doing math homework. Plus it is not that easy because we are not allowed to use calculaters anymore. Also we don’t even get a grade for correct answers, so what is the point? I would much rather be doing anything other than math homework on days that I already have other homework, shcool soccer,travel soccer, and softball all in one night.
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I think homework is an important part of learning. Math is one of the most important subjects that you learn in life. If there would be no math homework, it would just be too dull. Some lessons are dull themselves, but most of math is fun and challenging at the same time. Math is and always will be my favorite subject no matter what. I take math very seriously and get everything done at the right time. MATH IS FUN!!!
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Alec, I so agree with you! I love math because there is always an exact answer. Language Arts wasn’t my subject either! I bet you like Science…or maybe not…
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