In the link I shared earlier, an article in the National Post (
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09...l-assignments/) suggested that homework might help some students get ahead while hurting others.
In it, a math teacher from Red Deer Alberta said that when assigning homework, “I was probably making about 5% of my kids excited about mathematics,”. He further argued that homework in his class had always seemed to “buoy the strong and discourage the weak,” as the students who could do the 30 problems at home probably didn’t need to do them, he said, while the less math-savvy struggled with even one.
I have seen this in my high school math classes over the years as high performing students generally do their homework but are not usually the ones who need the extra help/work.
Do you think homework divides students? What are your/your children's experiences?