[makeitdouble]

I see homework and practice as two different activities. Practice needs intentionality and dedication, and you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not, with repetition until you get it right.

I rarely see homework going along these line.

Interestingly, there's practice books for exams, which can help a lot if you do them under your own control.

[lolinder]

> you need a short feedback loop to decide if you're doing it well or not

This is crucial. Without a short feedback loop you're not practicing, you're just doing take home quizzes.

The best teachers that I had would assign only odd-numbered problems as homework so you could check your work in the back of the book. In classes where they didn't do that, I usually "cheated" by plugging the problem into Wolfram Alpha or similar, because I knew that learning what I did wrong after we'd already moved on to the next unit would be pointless.

[data-ottawa]

For feedback loops, I found study groups to be very very useful in university. Reflecting on high school it seems weird they weren’t used more often.

After trying a problem on your own, taking your results and collaborating with peers is a one of the best ways to learn. Sometimes you have to assume the role of teacher and share your idea, which requires you to really understand it.

[makeitdouble]

Some middle and high schools do that. When we looked into it they were very expensive...

[data-ottawa]

I guess that’s good to hear.

I know the fact that you meet essentially every kind of person in school is a good thing, but I never fit the mould of learning the way school taught, so providing more diverse ways of learning I think could be a big boon to education.