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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Julia Banim

Parents left utterly stumped by maths question for 10-year-olds - can you solve it?

If you're not blessed with a brain for numbers, then looking over your children's maths homework can prove to be a bit of an ordeal, especially when you encounter a particularly difficult problem to solve. One mum was recently left astonished after her 10-year-old daughter came home with a maths question that left her absolutely stumped.

Confessing she'd been left 'stumped', Sky News presenter Anna Botting recently took to Twitter with a screenshot of her daughter's homework, using it as an example of why Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plans to make maths compulsory up to the age of 18 just wouldn't work for many pupils.

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