Are you chafing at homework?  More to the point, can doing homework help you? 

            Try this: 

First of all, learn to see homework as a practice that can help you tremendously, instead of as an onerous burden.

Start your homework at the earliest possible moment after class.  The less time that passes between class and homework, the less you will forget.

Use homework as a test.  If there are problems you cannot do, now you know what to work on.

Do not look up answers until you have finished a problem set.  If you absolutely need to look up one answer to figure out what to do, look up only one answer.

When you finish an assignment, now look up the answers.  Grade your work like a test.  Go back and concentrate on the types of problems you missed.

Some problems take a long time.  That is because you do not know how to do them.  Do the same problem three or four times until it is easy.  Do more problems like the ones that take a long time.  Soon they will take much less time.

You will hate to do some problems.  That is because you do not know how to do them.  See the previous suggestion.  Soon you will look forward to finding such problems on the test.

Try really hard to finish your homework on your own.  Ask for help when you need it, but only one question at a time.  Don’t give up easily.

Do the entire assignment.  The problems you don’t want to do are just the ones you need to learn to do.  If you are leaving out “just one problem,” tell yourself you need to do “just one problem.”

If you are spending less than ten hours a week on the homework for one math course, and doing not so well on tests, or feeling lost or not enjoying the work, try doing the exact opposite of what you feel like doing.  Try working more and concentrating more on your homework.

If you are spending more than twenty hours a week on the homework for one math course, and not doing so well on tests, or feeling lost or not enjoying the work, look to see if you are spending your time wisely.  Consider seeing me for ideas.