Now a days... do students still lug around ponuds of text books?

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Um, as examples? To make sure you understood the concepts? When you ended the lesson early and your teacher told you to start your homework? Etc. Etc. Etc. There were 100+ reasons we did problems from the book in class.</p>

<p>And don’t give me the “Why when we could it at home?” excuse. Technically, you could just as easily learn the concepts at home, considering you had a textbook.</p>

<p>In my math classes, we’d do book problems in addition to the lesson in class as practice problems, then check them. Then we’d move on to the next lesson. We’d also have homework. A lot of it.

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<p>The teacher did examples. Sometimes they would write a problem down and give people a little bit of time to think about it. Giving people a page number in the book to look up would be spectacularly inefficient. </p>

<p>And just having people do a bunch of problems isn’t really appropriate for class. The point of class time (i.e. contact time with the teacher) is that the teacher actually teaches you, and doing a bunch of problems by yourself then seeing the answers afterward doesn’t really take advantage of that. That’s what homework is for.</p>

<p>When the teacher finished the lesson, they wrote the homework assignment down. Then you can do what you want, whether that’s for 20 seconds or 5 minutes.</p>