I certainly hated and skipped as much homework I could while maintaining my grades as a kid. My math homework? Unengaging, rote, and on the face of it pointle

I certainly hated and skipped as much homework I could while maintaining my grades as a kid. My math homework? Unengaging, rote, and on the face of it pointless busywork. No meaningful reward or payoff. And this is coming from someone who ate up the concepts. I have early memories of looking up cos/sin in an encyclopedia of my own violition to figure out how to draw circles in QBASIC before I had ready access to the internet. As an adult, I've rebuilt my knowledge of matrix math, and built new mental models enabling me to spot incorrect values and understand where it's gone wrong in 3d rendering for my gamedev carreer. I'll engage with math curios on youtube. I don't hate homework quite as much as an Adult... then again, I'm not forced to do any ;). Homework is, at least in theory, a means of practicing and solidifying skills you're learning. For some skills, I'd like to motivate myself to do that a lot more! But unlike the satisfying click when a concept falls into place, homework can just grind without payoff other than a slight increase in speed for a skill I don't yet actually use for anything... either because I don't have an immediate use case for the skill, or because I'm completely unsatisfied with the end result at my current skill level. This can be addressed somewhat with extrinisic rewards, gamification...