{"id":236,"date":"2017-09-25T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2022-01-24T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:49:49","slug":"research-finds-the-effects-of-homework-on-elementary-school-students-and-the-results-are-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/25\/research-finds-the-effects-of-homework-on-elementary-school-students-and-the-results-are-surprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Finds The Effects Of Homework On Elementary School Students, And The Results Are Surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-media-2.lifehack.org\/wp-content\/files\/2016\/04\/08030801\/9CEZSS7R7T-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"225\" \/>I have been a math teacher for 28 years. For most of that time I have truly questioned the value of mathematics. I&#8217;ve even gone so far as to consider assigning math homework as causing more harm than good. Heresy&#8230;I know! I&#8217;ve heard it from lots of colleagues, administrators, and parents that I was a weirdo for thinking this.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been loads of articles and research that seriously question the value of homework. Please take a moment to read this wonderful article that I came across. It is short, makes 5 important arguments against homework, and includes 4 alternatives to assigning the traditional homework.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/385878\/research-finds-the-effects-of-homework-on-elementary-school-students-and-the-results-are-surprising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is where I got this article from.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a math teacher for 28 years. For most of that time I have truly questioned the value of mathematics. I&#8217;ve even gone so far as to consider assigning math homework as causing more harm than good. Heresy&#8230;I know! I&#8217;ve heard it from lots of colleagues, administrators, and parents that I was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}