Today, February 21, the United States celebrates Presidents Day, meaning many students get a restful day off. When they return to school after their three-day weekend, their teachers will have a full class schedule prepared for them.
However, even though important moments in history means students get to sleep in on a weekday, not every student is excited to go to their history class. Brainly — the world's largest online learning community — polled students and received some interesting information. Consider these stats:
- Some 62% of U.S students reported having an average of 3 hours of history homework per week.
- In terms of major wars taught in the U.S. history curriculum, around 72% of students say they knew the most about World War II.
- Over 75% of students said their history homework was moderately difficult or challenging in comparison to their other subjects.
- Brainly users shared 648,648 history answers - that is 9.7% of all answers in 2021!
Patrick Quinn, parenting expert at Brainly and former public school teacher, notes “ If we take a step back and make history lessons interactive, including fun facts and stories that are not typically included in textbooks, students will start to show much more interest.”
Results from Brainly’s engagement with history on their app shows the top 10 states most interested in history, along with the share of traffic related to history questions in January 2022:
- Alaska 13%
- California 11%
- New Mexico 11%
- Oklahoma 11%
- Kansas 10%
- Arizona 10%
- Idaho 10%
- Washington 10%
- Colorado 9%
- Nebraska 9%
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