<p>My teacher assigns us like 30-40 questions for homework and it takes like 4-6 hrs to do.... Seriously, it is so easy but you just have to show so much work. If hw is like 30% of your grade, would you finish it every time? I get so tired doing it...</p>
<p>I would talk to your teacher and tell him/her how much time you are spending on your homework each night. I doubt a teacher would deliberately assign 4-6 hours of homework every night. If your teacher ignores you and doesn't change, then I would try to transer out of the class (that much homework is obsurd). If transferring isn't an option, then I would probably just do a half@ssed job on the homework, so at least I did it (but it would take much less time).</p>
<p>I had a similar issue in my calc class last year, and I went and talked to my teacher about it. He seemed suprised that I would ever bother spending more than 2 hours on a calc assignment. He told me that I shouldn't spend anymore than 45 minutes on a homework and that I should just stop working after 45 minutes and hand in what I had done.</p>
<p>If the problems are easy, it should not take 4-6 hours to do them, even if you have to show all your work. If they are hard, then they should be assigned as a problem set to be done over the span of (say) a week, and 4-6 hours is not unreasonable.</p>
<p>What you should do is talk to other students, see the quality of their work, how long they took, and what grade they got on their assignment. There is always the case that you just suck at calculus (you might be able to do the problems, but you are doing them really slow) or that you are over-obsessing on showing your work at each step.</p>
<p>Calculus BC is super lame/easy, but what i notice across the board is that the Calculus BC TEACHERS Are just hardcore, throwing useless work at their students when they could get a 5 w/ 10000x less work.</p>
<p>I could easily see taking 4 hours to do 40 of those long quotient/product rule problems. They are so tedious w/ so many places for errors!</p>
<p>I couldnt even imagine taking 4-6 hours on my calc. homework let alone 40 min. That truly sounds insane, you should talk to your teacher.</p>
<p>I meant 40 min let alone 4-6 hours</p>
<p>i wish calc bc hw counted toward our grade. our teacher assigns like one hw a week, but my grade is low because the tests are actual retired ap questions.</p>
<p>also, the class is easy... you just suck at calc.</p>
<p>calc is something you either get or don't get!
that is an unreal amount of time! My son is a whiz at it! He can do a 40 question test in like 10 mins! and gets them all right...his mind just thinks math! Then there are kids in his class that can't finish the test in 55 mins!</p>
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<p>Then what's with the title?</p>
<p>i haven't done calculus hw in like a month. luckily its a very small percentage of the grade and as long as you do well on the tests/quizzes you get an A</p>
<p>You're probably exaggerating, no Calc student, even AP, will get 4-6 hours of homework EVERY night from just that subject. 30-40 problems shouldn't take you that long if they are easy.</p>
<p>My calc teacher gives us like 5-10 problems and a night and does like half of them in class hahah.</p>
<p>I'm not a Calc student, but what I usually do is fully do a few of the assigned problems and then cut some corners on the rest. The idea is for you to know how to do the problems, not to increase Georgia-Pacific's trading price.</p>
<p>haha my ab calc teach assigns like 20 probs a night but never checks them. As long as i pay attention in class i can get a's on the test. He usually just goes over the obnoxious problems in class also. </p>
<p>If you want to review, google "greg kelly calc powerpoints"</p>
<p>my calc teacher is AMAZING. she's so so good. like a machine. never a mistake. EVER. and the hw is pretty reasonable.</p>
<p>We have ~20-25 problems a week (4-5 hours diligently). College kicks ass :)
Although in the school I really had 2-3 hours of Calc a day. Although it wasn't graded so no one did it. And school is a waste of time anyway.</p>
<p>grr @ you guys
PREcalc is hard for me. We're currently learning vectors from the IB SL book and me = dead.
I'm currently spending my time writing poetry and fanfic to calm my nerves :( But teachers are nice to freshmen :)</p>
<p>in my AP calc class, the entire quarter is graded on TWO TESTS. That's IT. That makes 4or 5 tests a semester. No chances for messing up!</p>
<p>Calc can go to hell.</p>