How do I approach this much homework?

These are online classes.

Just the way you’re doing it. Q step at a time.

Just don’t let it overwhelm you. Make goals and a schedule and stick to them.

I would tackle the biggest challenge first whichever that is. Then the relief should make the others go smoother.

And I disagree with @janbb. Get the low hanging fruit first. But either way works.
In any case, don’t waste your time on Fluther.

I tend to agree to knock out the easier tasks first. That’s always what I do when I was taking a math test. Answer the ones quickly that you know and then go back and spend time thinking about how to solve the ones that are more problematic.

Take breaks here and there. Work on something intently for 30 to 45 minutes and then get up and take a short walk or have a snack or something.

Question, does your professor actually tell you how you have to take notes on the videos? That’s just crazy to me because everybody takes notes differently and what might be effective for one person wouldn’t be for another. Sounds like some kind of common core crap whether insisting everybody do stuff the same way. Good luck!

I work full time and have a 3 class load currently. I am also active socially and at gym. Plus it is ski season.
For me the key is knowing everything that is due and on what day. My paper calendar with every due date merged onto one place to look is vital. The main thing is to never get behind.
The rest is about focus. Knowing you have to spend a certain amount of work everyday reading and writing research papers or entering in discussions. Some weeks are tough. Try to not ask for a reprieve or deferment of work. Just spend the time being up to date.
Some weeks will suck. Good luck.

Ten 30 minutes videos with note takingfo one week? That is a lot!

And I can understand @Caravan’s thinking too – whichever way works for you.

I will try.

I had to cut my hours back, I care about myself lol. I am just stressed at how much it is.

And yes, he tells us how to indent the notes, etc. We have to write down everything he says.

@MakeItSo1701 Oh, that is a pain but kudos to you for studying! It will be worth it in the end.

First off, studying is a lot of work, but it’s important to work and study smart. As you read or watch videos take notes Then bring all your notes together and begin to recopy them. Take the time to consolidate your notes separating the wheat from the chaff. In other words…start whittling down your notes to the most important points. After this make yourself a “cheat sheet” Give yourself three or four pages and pretend you’ll be allowed that info on an exam. Put down everything you can that you think you will need on those three or four pages. Then condense that to one. When you are done you’ll be shocked at how much you have retained. This takes the info from short-term memory and begins to fold it over into long-term. You’re essentially ready at that point. If you find yourself not fully concentrating or starting to burn out, GET UP, go for a walk around the block, take a 10 minute break. Then get back to it. Be consistent, spend 3–4 hours a day on this but try not to go beyond 5. That’s putting you in burnout risk. That will kill your will to continue and the enjoyment of learning the material. So,DO NOT procrastinate. This is a marathon and not a sprint. Most importantly, enjoy your learning. If something interests you don’t be afraid to look beyond what’s being taught. Keep reassuring yourself that this is enjoyable. If you do enjoy it, you’ll retain it.

@LifeQuestioner when I taught note taking we showed them different ways and told them to work what’s best for them.
Common core just means integrating one subject with others, which we were taught to do in teacher school. It’s called “cross teaching” or “teach and reteach.”
But having the same standards across the country is useful, especially in math and English. I mean there is only 1 right way to add and subtract! Only one way to write sentances correctly. And I HATE English!

@Dutchess_III, who says there’s only one way to write sentences correctly? I don’t understand what it means to say that. (And I LOVE Englidh.)

*English

I don’t believe in only one right way to do things, or teach things. I learn best by handwriting notes, so I don’t mind the guided notes. They are just tedious.

this is how I learned multiplication, and it helped me a lot. I don’t use that as an adult, but it was nice.

What I did hate, was those timed tests where you had 5 minutes to answer as many math problems as possible, or the reading tests. They were not fair.

My online classes are a lot of work, but they allow me to learn my own way. There is more than one way.

Because you’re supposed to define a participle from a dangling participle (put that thing away!) and you don’t start a sentance with a….something.
I KNEW how to write a sentance, but I couldn’t specifically tell you how I know.
Diagraming sentances were hell for me.
But, other than that, I loved all other classes. I got an A++ in my Creative Writing class, which was actually taught by my English teacher, who, to this day my favorite teacher. She passed me with a D in English.
I had to take remedial English in college.
My professor finally pulled me aside to advise me to accept a P/F. Pass meant I got a passing grade, whatever it was, or accept an F.
OTOH I wrote about a riot in Herman Hill park in Wichita on Easter Sunday, 1979, and submitted it to the K-State newspaper.
They accepted it immediatly and said said I was guaranteed a spot on the paper the following year. I was excited about that!
But I didn’t make it back the following year.

@Forever_Free at one point I was taking two classes in the evening, and, although it wasn’t that much work, the assignments were varied enough that I had to use a physical monthly planner to write down everything and when it was due. It definitely helped!

@Dutchess_III I know that, but when I was tutoring math in the evenings, we would help the kids with their homework as well. The teacher was teaching them some very strange methods for doing things (I presume Common Core?), but many of the kids were getting frustrated because they knew how to do the math using quicker methods but would have to use the much more convoluted method. I remember learning long division in grade school, and we did have to demonstrate how to use that, but once we had, we could solve the problems in whatever way worked best for us, which is how I think it should be.

@MakeItSo1701 Yes, the lattice method was one of the things our students had to use. I thought it was a great way to do it, but again, unnecessarily convoluted if you could do it the way we learned it back in the day. As far as notetaking, I would hate being graded on how I take notes. Except for a few classes (Physics in college, for instance), I rarely took notes because I have really good retention. I would resent that teacher for making me do that. When you get to college, you are supposed to know how to do things like that, not be forced to do it just to placate your professor.

Well @LifeQuestioner, they do teach some things differently than we were taught, and that can be confusing for us.
I was in a classroom once and when it came math time the students were drawing grids and stuff adding and multiplying seemingly at random (to me)
I knew it was common core “New Math” but no idea how it was done.
So I became the student and appointed the kids as teachers and they learnt me!
As it sunk in I thought “This is genius!”
Some parents had a real problem with it because it wasn’t what / how they were taught.

@Dutchess_III yes, I was fortunate enough that I was always good at math so I can figure out quickly what they were using to teach the kids. I just didn’t like the fact that they insisted that the kids do it that way.

What’s wrong with teaching them to do it “that way?”

The old way was very methodical but it was actually so abstract that a lot of kids could not apply them to real life situations. e.g. fractions and portions thereof. How do you evenly divide a partially eaten pizza? How do you evenly space paintings across a wall that is 10 ft 2 in? Common Core (from what I saw) was to get kids to get an intuitive understanding of numbers and math.

I didn’t say that I was thought it was bad to teach it that way, only that it shouldn’t be the exclusive method and that once the student has demonstrated understanding of the method, they should be able to use whichever method is best for them.

Yeah @RocketGuy. Kids who instinctively understand math have their special tricks and tips that they just do internally.
Once I had a kid who came to my desk during a free time and “Miss V. Look!” and he proceded to show me this genius way of doing long division. Nothing like I’d ever seen before, and long before Common Core existed.
He explained as he went and it was….genius. I was left opened mouth because he was spot on.
He said that’s how HE does it in his head.
I think common core tries to incorporate what naturally gifted kids “just know”, and break down those steps so it can be taught to everybody even those who aren’t naturally gifted with the understanding.