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Let’s not beat around the bush: children’s maths homework can be hard. We’ve had the parents struggling to answer a 6-year-old’s maths question, plus the mum who wouldn’t work out this dog puzzle for her 7-year-old.
And these parents aren’t alone. Last night, columnist Lucy Mangan tweeted that her eight-year-old’s maths homework was officially “beyond” her.
“I retire from motherhood,” she wrote.
Parents replied in their hundreds relating to the dilemma – from those who had given up completely, to others who racked their brains to try and help.
Many sympathised immediately
Some were haunted by homework of the past.
Other parents took matters in their own hands
While others warned it’s only going to get harder
Back to the books we go...