Who does the homework?

Every day my students and I review the math homework for the night. Students check their own papers and we go over every missed question. We go over all questions that any of the students miss. I one day told the children that if they all could get all the answers right on their homework, I would treat my class to a pizza party.

This got the students very excited, but there always seemed to be one or two that would miss one. Today as we were going over our math homework the students were beginning to miss a lot of problems, mostly with careless mistakes. So, I say to my class, "Don't you want a pizza party?"

Rose takes initiative and says to the class, "You heard her, get your parents to do you homework tonight!"

Lesson learned: Challenge the students to make a 100% on their classwork versus their homework, at least in class you can guarantee that the children are doing the work.