Kirinyaga Mum Struggles To Help Grade 7 Child With Algebra Homework, Seeks Help Online: "Awkward"

• Grace Githinji said she experienced a challenge in helping her Grade 7 son with his math homework
• Her son asked her to help him with an algebra assignment which she had no clue how to go about
• The woman from Kirinyaga opened up on the new curriculum and its challenges that compelled her to seek assistance online

Kirinyaga - A woman has taken to social media to express a challenge she encountered with her son's homework.

Grace Githinji shared a post seen by TUKO.co.ke about mathematics questions that challenged her.

She turned to netizens, asking for help to save herself from the embarrassing moment.

"How do you communicate to a pre-teen, those algebra maths, you do not understand anything without those awkward moments of embarrassment? Do you tell them you do not know or refer them back to their teachers?" she painfully asked.

Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, the doting mother said she always encourages her kids, saying math is usually the easier subject.

Which studies are incorporated in maths?

However, she said her son's Grade 7 math questions challenged her which is why she sought a solution online.

"Their curriculum is not the way we were taught; it is more like high school, where you have to show how you arrived at that answer. They have also incorporated chemistry and physics into their studies, and as a parent who was poor in sciences and maths, you will sweat.

"To be honest, my child has never requested me to assist with his homework because he is quite bright in maths and science. I think yesterday he had a bit of trouble with algebra, and he asked me, and quite frankly, I was blank. Luckily, I have a Form 4 leaver who came in handy, but not after being tasked to explain how I couldn't hack a Grade 7 maths test because I could not understand," she said.

Why do kids look up to their parents?

The woman from Kirinyaga noted that most children always believe in their parents and look up to them when faced with challenges.

Githinji noted it was a tricky situation as she did not want to let her pre-teen boy down despite not knowing what to do.

Can young girl draw 20 different sketches?

In another story, a mother was unhappy with how much homework her daughter returned home with.

She shared the art teacher's assignments online, showing the number of art sketches her daughter had to draw.

She said her daughter was asked to draw 20 different sketches in her drawing book, which she struggled to do.

Proofreading by Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke