How to Approach Your Homework

Your homework should look like this. It works like this:

1. Make a plan to practice your multiplication facts most weeks and get your parent signature that you studied for at least 4 days. Occasionally you will be assigned to study for a test and I’ll lay how techniques for studying.

2. Get organized:

   • Make a plan for when you will do which sections- write the day of the week you will do each thing next to it on the check list.

   • Gather all the worksheets (Bluey pages if any, Class handouts if any,) put them in order

   • Get lined paper and make headings for any textbook work you’ll need to do this week.

   • Put it all in order and staple the HW Checklist on top. Put all the worksheets (Bluey/class handouts) & lined paper for textbook worksheets in order. Staple the HW Checklist on top. Now you have your week’s HW organized. Store that either in the pocket of your binder OR on a clipboard until you finish it. This should be in the order that it is listed on the checklist.

3. Read assigned pages in the textbook to review what we learned in class

4. Watch and sometimes take notes to review (main videos are hyperlinked to the HW checklist. Additional videos are down below in the Chp Resources section of this page. They are organized by chapter.)

5. Do=Practice: Divide your work into 4-5 days. Do about 10-15 problems on those days. Check off work that is done. (Some prefer to highlight finished work) You are doing a combination of

   • HW handouts (papers usually given in class, occasionally linked in the drop down menu and Chp Resource section. This is mostly Math 7)

   • Textbook problems (format like this)

   • Bluey (M7) /Greenie (M8) workbook pages - this is what we call the “Homework and Practice Workbook” for Math 7 and Math 8

   • Sometimes write definitions and formulas in your spiral notebook

6. Check your answers (in back of book for odd problems and even problems are posted on the resource page for each chapter). Redo missed problems (review classwork/KIN/Notes or watch a video on the resource page)

7. Staple all your work with your HW Checklist on top. Put it in order that it is listed on the checklist.

8. Self-assess your homework using the checklist. Write in the point values you have earned. If you want help with specific problems during tutoring, right those problems in the box near the self-assessment checklist.

9. Turn it in at the beginning of class the following week.