The homework subjects parents dread the most revealed

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00:00Hello, my name is Amber Allitt, and I'm a journalist specializing in education.

00:04When it comes to homework, sometimes your kids will need a little help.

00:07But this can, of course, expose our own foibles from our school days,

00:11not even mentioning the fact that most of our school days were a good few years ago now.

00:16A new study commissioned by Oxford University Press has revealed exactly which of the core

00:20school subjects primary age children find the most difficult at school.

00:24Not only that, but it has quizzed parents to uncover which ones they most dread helping

00:29them with when it comes to homework. It seems that parents and kids are united

00:34with both having maths in first place. Over half, or 54%, of the child respondents

00:40said that maths was the most difficult subject they learn at school. At the same time,

00:4560% of parents said it was the homework that they dreaded the most, with more than a third

00:50admitting to struggling with common homework concepts like supertising, chunking, and bodmass.

00:56After that, parents and children differed. In second place for children was science,

01:01with 31% finding it extra tricky, while English came in third. But for adults helping with

01:07homework, English came in second with 30% dreading it, while science was third with 26%.