Blardy Homework again!

[smartiejake]

Sorry just need to rant.

My DD is 10 she seems to get almost more homework than my older DD in year 8!

She has been getting arbitrary maths homework for the last few weeks that is on topics that have not yet been covered in class. It usually requires me to teach it to her in order to complete it. Sorry I know I am a teacher but isn't that HER teacher's job? I found out today that the teacher doesn't even mark the homework. She reads out the answers and the kids swap books and mark each others.

I have looked through the work DD has had marked for the last few weeks and there were loads of correct answers that were marked as incorrect by her partner. It wouldn't matter so much if the children didn't have to tell their teacher how many they get wrong and she then writes it in her record!

Sorry really made me ...

And Breathe.

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Not unusual to be marked by parterners IME (at least thinking back to my primary school). Can be part of the learning.

It is off that teh homework hasn't been covered in class though.

As for hte "incorrect" answers...are they definately incorrect? I mean you obviously know that 2+2=4, 7*9=63 etc...but if it is a little more obscure and non mainstream you may be misunderstanding/mis-interpretting the question.

God that sounds like you are thick. I don't mean that...

how can the teacher provide feedback on her approach to the subject if it isn't marked by the teacher?

If teacher does mark it - she takes it away and gives back a piece of paper with ticks and crosses on (potentially).

If the class are marking it, teacher stands at front and answers each question in turn with an explaination as to why what what etc. and the children learn from the discussion (assuming it is done this way TBH)

No sorry- am a teacher. I do actually know that 2 tenths are 0.2, that the 5 in 12.3_5_ is 5 hundreths and I can put decimals in order starting with the smallest.(which is what she had to do last week.)No ambiguity at all. She definitely got the answers right.

Teacher stands in front of class reading out the correct answers and children mark the work. There is no follow up to what they have been doing and NO explanation of how to get the correct answer. It's a time saving exercise.

I was always under the impression that homework was set to enforce and enhance learning in the classroom - silly me. SJ I think you've hit the nail on the head when you say it's a time saving excuse.

Ds2 is nearly 13 and in 2nd year. They kids do each others marking too. My ds2 sits beside someone who will quite often mark ds's work wrong when it is actually correct just for a "laugh"

Lazy teaching IMO. Ds tried to explain that his work was corret. Was told to stop telling tales and get it right the next time.

Twats