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Can you even really say you experienced the full spectrum of childhood if you weren’t crying over your homework with your parents in the room at some point? I’m still traumatized by my dad trying to explain math to me over 33 years ago. In a hilarious yet extremely relatable TikTok video, one mom shares the absolutely impossible homework question her child brought home—and the simple word problem made the whole house spiral.
“Kai has 10 marbles,” the poor, sniffling little boy reads aloud. “Seven are blue. The rest are red. How many red flowers does Kai have?”
If you’re thinking, “hold up now, how did we go from marbles to flowers?!!” you’re not alone. Because HOW DID WE GO FROM MARBLES TO FLOWERS? Seriously though!
My initial reaction was, “Surely this must be a typo because WHAT ON EARTH?!”
I’m crashing out right along with this family.
“So many questions. Why are we testing them right before winter break?!” the mom writes in her caption to the video. “Why make it so confusing for a first grader. Also, for his parents. We laughed. He cried. Kai has no flowers was the final answer. But we still dont know if it was right! LMAO.”
Sounds right to me and every other person on the internet! Because where did the damn flowers come from and what do they have to do with marbles and mathematics?!
Commenters agree the crash out here is “valid.”
“The teacher is rage baiting 😂😂😂,” one woman wrote. “AI generated worksheets,” says another. “Probably not the teacher’s fault, but the publisher. And the crash out is 100% legit.”
Oh God, are we letting AI make worksheets for kids at school now? Is that a thing? Please say no. Someone pleeeeease say no. All the commenters agree on another thing, too: Kai has ZERO FLOWERS.
Because who is giving and/or receiving flowers in a marble economy?
Here’s how this would go down in my house: Everyone has a different interpretation of whether the flowers are a typo or a trick question. Everybody is wrong. And then we just start yelling words like “FLOWERS” and “MARBLES” across the kitchen like we’re in an escape room designed by a maniac.
Because nothing bonds a family quite like being brought to the brink by a worksheet.
