Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Homework as Optional Mrs. White tells her 7th grade students that homework is optional. How could she ensure that her students will do their homework? What would she do in order to teach her students that homework is optional but it is important? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Give the students points based on how much they do and how well they do their homework. Set up a gamification type classroom. For example, for each homework assignment they complete, they get a point and then for every homework assignment that is completed correctly receive 2 points. Once students earn so many points they can earn things like stickers, no homework pass or other rewards. You can also explain that by doing homework, students will master the material and then they can do something harder with the material they have learned.