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Data from 17 fifth-grade students suggest that after doing the assignmentfor a full schoolyear, students clearly communicated their beliefs about the assignment having improved their mathematical abilities and their overall confidence with doing mathematics, communicating about mathematics, and taking tests involving mathematics. The assignment also alleviates pressure on teachers to “teach to the test” and to sacrifice valuable instructional time for test preparation. The assignment may prove to be an effective toolfor enhancing students’ mathematical skills, as well as their test-taking efficacy.  \nThe importance of a relevant curriculum for student learning is certainly not a new idea. Over a century ago Dewey (1902) wrote about the tension and possible resolve surrounding the issue of teaching the child versus teaching the subject. He considered the arguments pertaining to the questions of what knowledge children need both in and out of school – a quandary that persists today. Since Dewey, others such as Brown, Collins, and Duguid (1989), the National Research Council (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Donovan & Bransford, 2005; Donovan, Bransford, & Pelligrino, 1999) have published seminal works discussing the importance of embedding learning in students‟ experiences in order for students to acquire “useable, robust knowledge” (p. 32) .  \nStudents come to the classroom with preconceptions about how the world works. If their initial understanding is not engaged, they may fail to grasp the new concepts and information, or they may learn them for purposes of a test but revert to their preconceptions outside the classroom. (Brown, Bransford, & Cocking, 2000, p. 10) .  \nThe impact and implications of a disparate structure between school learning and critical real world knowledge has been studied in the context of mathematics more than any other subject area (e.g. , Davis & Maher, 1993, 1997; Gravemeijer, 1997) . For example, in the 1970s Freudenthal and his colleagues established Realistic Mathematics Education, which was premised on the idea that if learning mathematics is to be motivating and of value, it must be connected to children‟s reality and should be relevant to society (Freudenthal, 1973) . Using realistic contexts that students could at least imagine if not experience became one of the determining characteristics of this approach to mathematics education (Van Den Heuvel-Panuizen, 2003) .  \nIn the mid-1980‟s, Carraher, Carraher, and Schleimann (1987), introduced the mathematics education community to young Brazilian street merchants whose  \nfacility with in situ computations and problem solving with money far exceeded their ability to succeed with school mathematics. This research sent a clear message. We needed to reexamine our definition of what makes a successful young mathematician and what is important for children to learn, to know, and to communicate within a school mathematics program. Soon after, the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (1997) brought programs such as The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury to the conversation. This work was premisedin an anchored-instruction approach to teaching and learning mathematics, whereby learning and instruction were anchored to problem-based environments that were meant to motivate students and to offer them reasons to learn mathematics.  \nMore recently, studying the ways in which marginalized populations such as racial minorities and students from low-income families are removed from typical textbook scenarios has contributed to appeals for relevant curricula that embed principles of Social Justice an","cbCaif17Fon0CX7E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif17Fon0CX7E","pdf",677403,"English","# Homework as Test Preparation: Its Promise and Efficacy\n## Weekly math-in-everyday-life homework\n## Relevant curriculum and useable knowledge\n## Realistic Mathematics Education and contextual learning\n## Equity, social justice, and culturally relevant schooling\n## Teaching-to-the-test and implications for instruction","[{\"question\":\"What is the homework assignment studied in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"Students complete a weekly homework task where they write about the mathematics they do in their everyday lives.\"},{\"question\":\"What outcomes were observed after a full school year?\",\"answer\":\"After completing the assignment, students reported improved beliefs about their math abilities and increased confidence in doing, communicating about, and testing mathematics.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the assignment affect teachers and instructional time?\",\"answer\":\"It alleviates pressure for teachers to “teach to the test,” helping preserve valuable instructional time for learning.\"}]","Homework as Test Preparation: Its Promise and Efficacy | PDF",1792089294]