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Homework is totally different for me in university compared to high school. Math in high school was easy. The homework just felt like a waste of time: repeatedl

Homework is totally different for me in university compared to high school. Math in high school was easy. The homework just felt like a waste of time: repeatedly applying what you learned from one example. In university, homework is everything. If all you do is attend the lectures, you will fail the midterm and final. In order to do well in the course you need to do all the homework which really pushes you to learn. The examples given in lecture are completely trivial compared to the homework problems which can often take hours to solve. “Enrichment activities” would actually be useful if the content was actually enriched. Advanced students would get a lot more out of school if they were given work that was genuinely challenging for them and took a long time to figure out.

DubiousPusher 6y ago
I feel similar. My first collegiate math class, the teacher came in and asked the class, "do you know how to get an A in this class, two hours of math homework a night". I followed this advice and bam, A. Despite the fact that this math class was much harder than anything I did in high school and I was always a B+ math student. The next semester I followed this advice again but let myself slip a few weeks and bam B+. The next semester I strictly spent the time again, bam, A. Through upper class years my diligence in school was consistent but I sometimes had to focus on programming over math. I noticed a near perfect correlation between the time I spent on out of class work and my performance.
taneq 6y ago
My experience was similar - in highschool, the class is divided into two parts, the 'lesson' bit where the teacher explains something, then the 'practice' bit where the class tries use the information from the first half to solve some problems. In university, the entire lecture is the 'lesson' bit and the assigned homework is the 'practice' bit.

DubiousPusher 6y ago

I feel similar. My first collegiate math class, the teacher came in and asked the class, "do you know how to get an A in this class, two hours of math homework a night". I followed this advice and bam, A. Despite the fact that this math class was much harder than anything I did in high school and I was always a B+ math student. The next semester I followed this advice again but let myself slip a few weeks and bam B+. The next semester I strictly spent the time again, bam, A. Through upper class years my diligence in school was consistent but I sometimes had to focus on programming over math. I noticed a near perfect correlation between the time I spent on out of class work and my performance.

taneq 6y ago

My experience was similar - in highschool, the class is divided into two parts, the 'lesson' bit where the teacher explains something, then the 'practice' bit where the class tries use the information from the first half to solve some problems. In university, the entire lecture is the 'lesson' bit and the assigned homework is the 'practice' bit.