Learning mathematics (particularly at the high school level and beyond) involves learning how to communicate your ideas effectively.  As a student, most of your daily written communication will be in the form of homework that you will hand in.  Therefore, it is important that you put your homework in an easy to read, easy to navigate format.  After all, how you present your work should enhance the ideas that you are trying to communicate, not impede them.  With that in mind, the following are some suggestions for submitting homework in your mathematics classes.

• Your handwriting should be legible.
• Homework with multiple pages should be stapled in the upper left-hand corner.
• Perforated "fringe" should be removed.
• In the upper right-hand corner you should write (in this order)
  • Your Name
  • Your Class and Section Number
  • The Homework Set Number
  • The Due Date of the Assignment
• Problems should be clearly labeled and numbered on the left side of he page.
• It is good practice to first work out the solutions to homework problems on scratch paper, and to then neatly write up your solutions.  This will help you to turn in a clean finished product.
• If you are unable to do a problem completely, write as much as you can in an attempt to solve the problem, and be sure to ask your teacher about this problem.
• Some classes allow you to work jointly on assignments.  You should write up your solutions by yourself, unless you are specifically told otherwise by your instructor.  Also, you should always acknowledge any help received, at the top of the assignment or in the margin.

As an example, below is a typical homework paper showing three problems - one from an Analysis 31 class, one from Discrete Mathematics 42, and one from AP Statistics 41.