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You Ruined My Homework!

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"You Ruined My Homework!" is the 392nd episode of the series.

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Will Chelsea be in trouble if she doesn't get her homework done?

Chelsea is entering the classroom and greets everyone. She is in a really good mood due to her staying up all night to play game. Madison reminds Chelsea about the homework. Chelsea is confused and doesn't know what she's talking about. Miss. Myers asks everyone to bring up the homework, all the students bring their homework except Chelsea. Miss. Myers asks Chelsea where her homework is. Chelsea didn't know what she was talking about, so she asked Miss. Myers. Miss Myers tells her that the assignment was to write about what you want to be in the future. Miss. Myers figures out that Chelsea didn't do it because she forgot about it, so she gives her until the next day to get it done. Madison tells Chelsea saying that it looks like she won't be playing her new game tonight. Chelsea is annoyed that she has to do her homework. Later, Chelsea is in the kitchen trying to write her essay. Barbie and Chelsea talk about how she forgot about the homework. Chelsea is writing about being a nurse, but she needs help from Barbie. Barbie gives her an idea. Annabelle and Isabelle enter the kitchen asking for a milkshake. Chelsea asks for one too, but Barbie tells her that she has to finish her homework first. Annabelle asks Chelsea what homework she's doing. Chelsea shushes her and tells her that she is trying to concentrate. Barbie hands the twins their milkshakes. After that, Chelsea suddenly finishes her homework and Barbie makes her a milkshake. The Twins ask if they can play the game, but Chelsea says no. Annabelle tells Chelsea that she is rude. Tommy suddenly appears in the kitchen and shouts at Barbie causing her to spill the milkshake on Chelsea's homework. Barbie then apologizes to Chelsea. A few moments later, Margaret (The Twins Grandma) appears and greets Isabelle. Isabelle tells her that they were baking cookies, Margaret tells her that she can't wait to try them and enters inside. Isabelle brings her to Barbie who has the cookies in her hand. Margaret says the cookies smell good. Annabelle tells her that she made them herself, but Isabelle says that she made them too, Annabelle says that Isabelle helped a little bit. Chelsea pops up in the kitchen again, telling her that she finished her homework again. Barbie apologizes, Chelsea says it's fine and asks her mom (Margaret) if she wants to read her homework. Isabelle tells her that she has to eat the cookies first. Margaret takes a bite out of one of them and is disgusted. She uses Chelsea's paper and uses Chelsea's homework as a napkin and crumbles it. Chelsea sees what happens and Margaret apologizes to her and says the cookies tasted terrible. Chelsea is annoyed that she has to do her homework again. Chelsea is in her room checking the homework assignment. Barbie asks her if she wants to take it downstairs but Chelsea refuses to and says she doesn't want it to be ruined again. Chelsea is relieved and can finally play her game now. Meanwhile, The Twins are chasing Taffy around the house. Chelsea tells the girls to be careful. The girls and Taffy go upstairs and are in Chelsea's room. The Twins have cornered her, but, Taffy puts Chelsea's homework in her mouth and runs away with it. Chelsea is downstairs playing her game and sees the twins and taffy chasing each other. Suddenly, Chelsea sees a piece of paper in Taffy's mouth. Chelsea realizes that it's her homework and tells her to drop it. Chelsea can see that it is her homework after Taffy drops it. Later, Annabelle and Tommy are making paper airplanes with pieces of paper. Chelsea enters the kitchen and tells everyone to stay away from her homework. Tommy tells her to put it in the safe place. Chelsea agrees with the idea and then places her homework on the table telling them that nobody can touch the paper, so she can go upstairs to get her backpack to put her homework inside. Annabelle and Tommy say that they won't touch it. Annabelle throws her paper airplane, but it just hits the floor next to where she is sitting. Annabelle is annoyed that it didn't work. Ken comes in the kitchen and asks them what's up. Annabelle says her paper airplane didn't fly. Ken says that he's gonna show them how to make a good paper plane. Ken picks up a piece of paper that he sees asking if anyways using the paper, Annabelle and Tommy say no. Ken folds the paper, making a paper airplane. Tommy says it looks goods and is impressed. Tommy tells him to throw it to the backdoor, so he does. The Paper ends up going in the pool. Chelsea realizes that her homework is missing and asks where's her homework. Finally, Chelsea arrives at school the next day. Miss. Myers greets and asks Chelsea if she's got anything for her, Chelsea says no. Miss. Myers says that she didn't do the homework again, so she better have a good excuse. Chelsea says she does and invites her family to the classroom. Barbie, Ken, Annabelle, Isabelle, Tommy, and Taffy all enter the classroom. Miss. Myers asks what is going on. Chelsea points to her family saying they're the reason she didn't do her homework. Miss. Myers asks who wants to explain first. Taffy Barks, and Tommy says that she thinks Taffy does. Miss. Myers is confused by this and says huh. The Episode ends here

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'Constantly learning' Imanaga off to impressive start with Cubs

CHICAGO (AP) — The road for Shota Imanaga from Japan to the major leagues included at least one sharp observation that has served him well in his transition to life with the Chicago Cubs.

"Watching foreign players in Japan and how they try to figure out how to get support from the fans, essentially I'm just doing the opposite of that, coming over here," Imanaga said through a translator. "It was something I thought about."

From his entertaining pitching style to his trips to Dunkin' Donuts — "Either I order a small iced latte or a medium," he said — Imanaga has moved with a purpose in his acclimation to the big leagues. And he is making it look easy at the moment.

Relying on a deceptive four-seam fastball that he usually locates at the top of the strike zone, along with a splitter that plays at the bottom, Imanaga is 5-0 with a 0.84 ERA for the contending Cubs. The left-hander also has 58 strikeouts and nine walks in 53 2/3 innings — thrusting himself into the early conversation for NL Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award.

Imanaga's ERA is the lowest for a major leaguer for his first nine career starts — excluding openers — since baseball started tracking earned runs in 1913. Fernando Valenzuela had the previous mark at 0.91 in his second year with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1981.

It's the fourth-lowest ERA since 1920 for any pitcher in his first nine starts in a season, trailing Jacob DeGrom (0.62 in 2021), Hall of Famer Juan Marichal (0.69 in 1966) and Zack Greinke (0.82 in 2009).

So far, Imanaga has been better than Chicago ever could have expected when it signed him to a $53 million, four-year contract in January.

"The way he thinks about himself as a pitcher, the way he talks through his first few starts here, he's thoughtful about everything," said Jed Hoyer, the president of baseball operations for the Cubs. "I think he knows he can continue to get better and continue to refine stuff. It's been a great start, and I am glad people have sort of gravitated towards watching him."

Have they ever.

Imanaga, who takes the mound in throwback-style high socks, is already a fan favorite in sports-crazy Chicago. But his early success is only part of the growing connection between the Japanese lefty and the passionate residents of Wrigley Field.

It started when Imanaga — wearing No. 18 in honor of Ben Zobrist, who was the World Series MVP when the Cubs won the title in 2016 — recited a couple of lines from the song "Go Cubs Go" during his introductory news conference.

He warms up to The Fratellis' "Chelsea Dagger," the goal-scoring song for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. He has openly mused about switching his alarm to the sound of cheering fans at Wrigley to help him get started in the morning.

"What impresses me the most is how (much) fun he's having here," San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish said through a translator. "Not just pitching ... but how he's adjusting to life in the U.S. I think he's really taking it in and enjoying it, so that part makes me happy, too."

As Imanaga prepared for life in the majors, he spoke with Darvish about his experience. Imanaga and Darvish were teammates when Japan won last year's World Baseball Classic, beating the U.S. in the final. The 37-year-old Darvish, who played for Chicago for three seasons, made his big league debut with Texas in 2012.

Imanaga, 30, also did his homework on Chicago and the Cubs organization before signing with the team.

"He's in a place in life where he's very sure who he is, and that's been evident kind of from early on," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. "He's very confident in his choices, very confident in the people he puts around him. ... I think he is looking for the experience of what can I enjoy from a new country, and I think you take that perspective and it makes the experience a really good one."

Imanaga went 7-4 with a 2.80 ERA in 22 starts in his final season with the Yokohama BayStars of Japan’s Central League, finishing with 174 strikeouts and 24 walks in 148 innings. Nicknamed "The Throwing Philosopher," he also wrote a book on pitching that was published last year.

"I'm always constantly learning," Imanaga said about the book-writing process. "But the fact that I'm trying to put out all the information, I think that helped me understand more about myself."

The 5-foot-10 Imanaga averages 92 mph on his four-seamer — not exactly noteworthy in a sea of high-90s fastballs — but it has a high spin rate and an unusual amount of vertical movement. Hitters likely will adjust over time, forcing Imanaga to take a closer look at his approach.

But Imanaga and the Cubs are confident he is up to the challenge, especially with how he embraces the advanced metrics of the sport.

"Compared to Japan, I mean they do hand out data, but here, they'll give us data and they'll have a plan going along with it," Imanaga said. "I like that."

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When Barbie Broke the Glass Ceiling

The iconic doll traveled to space, flew with the Thunderbirds and joined the NBA, beating real-life women to an array of career milestones

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Greta Gerwig’s new blockbuster Barbie movie incorporates many elements of the famed doll’s real appearance and history: Barbie’s permanently arched feet, her pink DreamHouse and even the company responsible for the toy. Many of the film’s impeccably dressed Barbies work in fields historically dominated by men, like diplomacy, medicine, physics and politics. “This Barbie is a Supreme Court justice,” reads one promotional poster . “This Barbie is president,” states another. The movie’s male characters, meanwhile, are identified simply as Kens.

Barbie ’s star-studded lineup takes inspiration from real Barbies who were ahead of their time. Since the doll’s debut 64 years ago, in March 1959, Barbie has served as an evolving commercial embodiment of the American woman. Created by Ruth Handler, co-founder of toy company Mattel alongside her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson, Barbie was named after the Handlers’ daughter, Barbara. Whereas most dolls of the era looked like the young children who played with them, Barbie was a woman. Mattel marketed her as a doll that young girls could use to act out a grown-up’s life. As a sweet voice sings in Barbie’s first television commercial , “Someday, I’m going to be exactly like you. Til then, I know just what I’ll do: Barbie, beautiful Barbie, I’ll make believe that I am you.”

Building on this premise, Mattel gave Barbie many different lives for children to emulate in play, developing a diverse universe of Barbies with different styles, passions and careers. According to Mattel, the doll has held more than 250 jobs , with Barbie sometimes entering sectors of the workforce real women had yet to break into. Ahead of Barbie ’s arrival in theaters on July 21, read about Barbies who made it to the top of the career ladder before (or around the same time as) their real-life counterparts, as well as some of the actual women who followed in these dolls’ footsteps.

One small step for tiny feet: Astronaut Barbie

In 1962, less than a year after Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space , a young girl named Linda Halpern wrote to President John F. Kennedy. Like many Americans, Halpern was enraptured by the space race , from scientists’ use of futuristic technology to their exploration of new frontiers. She asked the president what she needed to do to become an astronaut herself. NASA’s Office of Public Services and Information responded on Kennedy’s behalf, replying , “Your willingness to serve your country as a volunteer woman astronaut is commendable. However, … we have no present plans to employ women on space flights because of the degree of scientific and flight training, and the physical characteristics, which are required.”

Where Halpern was barred, Barbie prevailed—at least symbolically. In 1965, Mattel embraced the space craze by launching Barbie into orbit with a new title: Miss Astronaut . Dressed in a silver suit reminiscent of the uniform worn by members of Project Mercury , the NASA program that first put Americans in space, Barbie donned spacefaring gear 13 years before NASA welcomed women into its astronaut corps in 1978 and 18 years before Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel to outer space in June 1983.

After Ride’s history-making spaceflight, Halpern—by then a successful Texas attorney—shared the letter she’d received from NASA with the astronaut. As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum noted in a 2016 blog post , Halpern wanted Ride to “know that she was fulfilling so many young girls’ long-deferred dreams of spaceflight. … Ride kept [the letter] in her files for the rest of her life.” Today, the museum houses both the missive and a Miss Astronaut doll (plus her helmet , boots , mittens and American flag ) in its collections.

Barbie’s space adventures didn’t end with Miss Astronaut. Astronaut Barbie , decked out in a hot pink spacesuit, followed in 1985; more recent entries in Mattel’s space-themed offerings include Mars Explorer Barbie and Barbie Space Discovery dolls , which come with miniature astronaut food. In 2019 , Mattel made a custom doll of Ride as part of its “ Inspiring Women ” series. And just last year, astronauts took two Barbies to space, where they briefly resided at the International Space Station.

Paging Doctor Barbie

Doctor Barbie first took the Hippocratic oath in 1973 , at a time when women were fighting back against a century of barriers to medical careers. She wore a cinched teal dress made of vaguely scrub-like material and a surgical mask. Another outfit featured a white lab coat, a stethoscope and a head mirror (implying an ear, nose and throat specialization). Her accessories included a diagram of a human skeleton, a medical school diploma and a corded rotary phone.

The doll hit shelves more than a century after Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a medical degree in 1849. Yet women were still the minority in the field, making up just 7 percent of physicians in the United States in 1970, according to records kept by the American Medical Association . That same year, the Women’s Equity Action League filed a class-action lawsuit against every medical school in the country for discriminatory admissions habits . The number of female graduates began to rise , increasing from around 6 percent in the mid-1960s to 16 percent by the mid-1970s.

In 2021, women made up more than one-third of the U.S.’s active physician workforce, per the Association of American Medical Colleges . Still, as the Harvard Business Review noted in 2022, “a large amount of anecdotal evidence and one small-sample study indicate that a significant proportion of female physicians either no longer work full-time or are considering cutting back,” in part due to challenges raised by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 1973 doctor doll was one of the first Barbies in the medical field. (A Barbie Registered Nurse outfit preceded Doctor Barbie by 12 years; it featured white open-toe heels, a hot water bottle, a medicine bottle and a metal spoon.) Some later iterations swapped out Barbie’s dresses for pants (see “ Barbie Baby Doctor ”), while others simply updated the doll’s dress design.

In 2021, Mattel released six Barbies modeled after real women fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, including Sarah Gilbert , a vaccinologist from the University of Oxford who helped develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and emergency room nurse Amy O’Sullivan , who treated a Brooklyn hospital’s first Covid-19 patient in March 2020.

Working 9 to 5: Day-to-Night Barbie

Day-to-Night Barbie , also known as CEO Barbie , debuted in 1985. She carried a briefcase containing the business section of a newspaper, two magazines and a tiny calculator. The doll’s daytime outfit was a hot pink blazer and skirt, which transformed into a cocktail dress for Barbie to wear after work when reversed. Margot Robbie, who plays the lead Barbie in Gerwig’s film, channeled the iconic look at the movie’s South Korean premiere in Seoul, donning a pink blazer and pencil skirt, a white hat, and a pink scarf.

Other business-themed Barbies include Working Woman Barbie , a 1999 doll accompanied by a CD-ROM featuring games and other activities; Career Girl Barbie , a 2006 rerelease of a 1963 tweed ensemble ; and ’80s Edition Career Girl , a 2021 throwback doll who sported a pink peplum top and a pink brick cellphone.

Day-to-Night Barbie led Mattel’s 1985 “We girls can do anything, right, Barbie?” advertising campaign . She also joined a growing number of women in the white-collar workforce. In 1983, 39 percent of employees in the finance and banking sectors were women. By 2016, women made up 52 percent of workers in “financial activities” jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, the field’s leadership roles remain dominated by men. In 2021, women’s share of management jobs within financial services firms was 24 percent . As of this June, 10 percent of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies—approximately 52 individuals—are women.

Ten-hut! Barbies in the military

Army Barbie debuted in 1989, a year in which the number of active-duty women enlisted in the U.S. military stood at 195,532—the highest number recorded by the Department of Defense between 1973 and 2010. She wore Mattel’s take on an Army officer’s evening uniform, according to the back of the doll’s box , which proclaimed, “Military galas are grand!” and described Barbie as “pretty and proud.” The box lauded Barbie’s attendance at embassy parties, military dinners, and “many other formal affairs around the world with the men and women who serve their country.”

At the time of Army Barbie’s release, the military’s share of female officers was rising steadily. In 1973, just 4 percent of commissioned officers were women. Sixteen years later, this figure was up to around 11 percent . More recently, in 2021, women made up 19 percent of officers across service branches.

Air Force Barbie hit shelves in 1990 , dressed in an olive green jumpsuit and brown leather bomber jacket. She debuted shortly before Air Force pilot Lisa Wilson became the first enlisted woman to fly in a combat situation in January 1991, noted Senior Master Sergeant James W. Crissinger in a 1997 paper . Two years later, in 1993, Jeannie Leavitt became the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot .

In 1994 , Barbie also joined the Thunderbirds , the Air Force’s team of aerobatic pilots, who demonstrate the branch’s capabilities at air shows around the world . Just six female pilots have flown with the Thunderbirds since their inception in 1953. The first was Nicole Malachowski , who joined in 2005, 11 years after Barbie.

Navy Barbie appeared in 1991 , “wearing the official uniform for enlisted women,” according to the back of her box . “Authentic insignia and campaign ribbons on her jumper blouse indicate that she is a petty officer first class and quartermaster [who] has been in the Navy for eight years.” In 1990, about 11 percent of Naval officers were women, according to the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center . In 2021, female Naval personnel made up 20 percent of active-duty officers.

Marine Corps Barbie , or “Sergeant Barbie,” also debuted in 1991. According to her box, she was already decorated with “the multi-stripe Desert Storm Medal for her participation in that campaign.” Barbie symbolically accompanied the roughly 1,000 real women Marines deployed for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991. Today, 9 percent of active-duty Marines are women.

Play ball, doll: NBA Barbie, WNBA Barbie and MLB Barbie

In 1998, Mattel released a series of Barbies representing teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 29 NBA Barbies wore uniforms inspired by the Chicago Bulls , the New York Knicks and more. Each of the ponytailed dolls came with a miniature basketball and a jacket sporting their team’s logo.

Also in 1998, Barbie joined a relatively new league: the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The WNBA began playing professionally in June 1997 , more than a century after women first participated in the game in 1892 . (James Naismith invented basketball in 1891; the following year, Senda Berenson , a gymnastics instructor at Smith College, adapted the rules for women’s matches.)

The WNBA Barbies didn’t represent specific teams: Some wore blue-and-green uniforms , while others donned blue-and-red uniforms , each branded simply with the WNBA logo. Sneakers, knee guards and jackets completed the get-up. The dolls came packaged with a basketball hoop and tiny ball, which Barbie could “shoot” if you placed it in her hand and pressed a button on her back. The back of the box featured a real WNBA player and offered fun facts about the nascent league: for instance, that it was made up of ten teams, and two-thirds of spectators at games were women.

To date, no women have played in the NBA, though the New Orleans Jazz did draft Lusia Harris , a 6-foot-3 center who excelled in college basketball, in 1977. Harris decided not to start training with the team, later reflecting , “I didn’t think I was good enough. Competing against a woman, yes. It’s a different story competing against a man. So, I decided not to go. I said no to the NBA.”

The same year Barbie joined the NBA and the WNBA, she stepped up to the plate of Major League Baseball as MLB Barbie , holding a small wooden bat and wearing the official uniforms of the New York Yankees, the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Twenty-five years later, Barbie remains the only “woman” to play on an MLB team; unlike basketball, the league has no women’s counterpart. Still, some shining stars have made their mark on the sport. In 2015, the MLB included a female baseball player in its international registration list for the first time, adding 16-year-old Melissa Mayeux of France. And last year, Kelsie Whitmore became the first female player in the Atlantic League , a partner league of the MLB.

Commander in chief: Barbie for president

The first female presidential candidate in the U.S. was Victoria Claflin Woodhull , who ran in 1872 . But it wasn’t until 2016 that a woman, Democrat Hillary Clinton , secured the nomination of a major political party and had a real shot at the job. Barbie, meanwhile, has run for president almost every election year since 1992.

That first year, the doll wore a patriotic ball gown. She came in a box labeled “Barbie for President” and had a red pantsuit as an alternate outfit. Per the Washington Post , subsequent iterations boasted ensembles ranging from a royal blue jacket and skirt with matching tights and heels to a doll “sporting wedge heels, a design that allowed her to stand upright for the first time ever.”

In 2016, Mattel promoted an all-woman ticket, selling President and Vice President Barbies as a matching pair . Four years later, the company unveiled an all-female campaign team made up of a candidate, campaign manager, fundraiser and voter. Exactly what office the candidate doll was running for was unspecified. That year, Kamala Harris was elected as the U.S.’s first woman vice president.

Gerwig’s new film takes Barbie past the candidacy phase of her campaign for the first time. Issa Rae stars as President Barbie , who wears a pink ballgown and a sash identifying her as Barbie Land’s commander in chief. As the actress tells the Guardian , when asked to picture someone who might play with a doll based on her character, she imagined her “bossy” childhood self, who “wanted to be a leader.” In the film, President Barbie works out of a pink Oval Office and has an all-female staff clad in pastel pantsuits. Fittingly, Mattel released a matching President Barbie doll to mark the movie’s release, confirming that Barbie has finally broken the presidential glass ceiling after more than 30 years of campaigning.

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As bizarre as it may sound, the latter scenario is happening at an alarming rate, as parents and grandparents struggle to help kids complete their homework – particularly mathematics. 

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New data commissioned by the Department for Education ’s Skills for Life campaign and Kindred found that 54% of parents would say they ‘would struggle to know where to start’ if left to their own decisions when helping children with their maths homework.

The Skills for Life campaign is encouraging adults of all ages to up their skills and learn something new, and to boost their confidence when helping their children at home and potentially improve their own career prospects. 

Of the 2,250 adults surveyed, 69% said they use the internet to help solve schoolwork problems and 20% reported using virtual assistants, like Alexa and Google Assistant, to help tutor their kids at home. Maths was revealed to cause the most angst and was voted the least favourite homework subject among parents and grandparents.

The data comes as education groups raise concerns about the growing use of AI in students’ work. Asking a virtual assistant for help on a task you plan to finish yourself is quite different to asking ChatGPT to come up with the answers for you, it raises questions about how much we rely on technology. 

A 16-year-old student identified only as Fiore previously told Metro.co.uk that he turned to ChatGPT when he realised an English essay was due the next day. It’s 2024 after all, and his story serves as a stark reminder that the days of cramming the assignment into an all-nighter or turning to SparkNotes for help are long gone.

Although many people would fear plagiarism detectors or eagle-eyed lecturers spotting AI-generated essays , the student wasn’t afraid about being caught. 

However, not all students are using AI to cheat and not all are using ChatGPT, with some turning to Gemini, which was developed by Google. Chatbots have also been found to be helpful for students with dyslexia when it comes to comprehending in-depth academic texts. 

Jane Basnett, director of digital learning at Downe House School in Berkshire admits that homework can be tricky for parents. ‘In the old days, parents turned to the Encyclopaedia Britannica to find responses, visited the library with their child or they asked a more informed friend,’ she told Metro.co.uk. ‘They had conversations and made discoveries about different topics that perhaps they had not known about before.’ 

This practice, however, has changed drastically now that technology is just one tap, swipe or voice command away. ‘Finding the knowledge is one thing, understanding it and engaging with it properly is another.

‘Parents need to encourage their child to understand the GenAI output and to put their own responses together.

‘These are just the sort of conversations that teachers are having with their students in classrooms across the country. Gen AI (generative artificial intelligence) is a tool that can very quickly do your homework for you but in doing so, it takes away the key important elements of education: learning, discovering and critical thinking.’

One dad, Paul Duggan, 68, from London made a huge life change after realising he couldn’t help his daughter with her homework. He completed a Skills for Life Numeracy course in 2020, when his daughter Rebecca was 10, after she inspired him to sign up.

He has since gone on to achieve a Functional Skills qualification in maths, which is equivalent to a Maths GCSE. 

‘I always had a difficult relationship with maths,’ he said. ‘I think a lot of people do. When my daughter, Rebecca, started needing more help with her homework I realised that if I didn’t tackle my fear of numbers now, not only would I be unable to help, but I’d also risk passing on my negative relationship with maths, which I certainly didn’t want to do.’

Not all parents will be able to find the time to brush up on their maths skills, as they often have to balance full-time jobs, the needs of other children, the cost of living and general life stuff. But for those like Paul who could, it has proven to be invaluable.

‘Signing up to the Skills for Life course was honestly one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It’s helped boost my confidence with everyday sums, and I’ve also grown a lot closer to my daughter, Rebecca, in the process, helping her solve equations and more complex problems as she studies for her maths GSCE.’

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