Doing Homework and the other Sequences

Class began today with a long discussion about homework and the integrity of completing it on time.  When we began today to start checking over homework, we discovered that well over a majority of kids had not completed it.  At all.

As you might guess, I let them know how unacceptable this was and we reviewed their commitment as a student and acknowledged the consequence for not completing homework.  One thing that I took away from this morning was that they have a casual relationship between me assigning homework and actually feeling a need to complete it.  As such, beginning today and until the kids will have homework every night.  I'm not talking humongous amounts of homework--but something.  We'll spend time re-evaluating this in the coming weeks.

Beyond that, we did Chapter 2: Greatest Hits today as we hit the highlights of the rest of the Chapter: the sequences of Squares and Cubes as well as the Fibonacci Sequence.

Their homework tonight is to write out the first 20 terms of the Fibonacci Sequence.