Homework Hell….

February 9, 2010 By Magic Mummy
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Right, everyone think of five sentences that describe Florence Nightingale. Done? Now use 4,32,28,+,- and = and makeup as many different sums as you can, then if you wouldn’t mind drawing and labelling a plant.

If you can do that, you have successfully completed Miss Frugal’s (aged 7) homework!

I presumed she would know the Florence Nightingale bit but no, she couldn’t remember anything about her other than she was a nurse. Thanks god for Google eh!

Just so you know (in Miss Frugal’s words) :

Florence Nightingale was trained to be a nurse.
She liked to help the soldier men.
She was born in 1820.
She was asked to go to the Crimean War.
The soldiers liked hur.

The sums took forever and the plant is an absolute work of art – If we don’t get a gold star for this I’ll be livid lol.

Poor Master Frugal (aged 4) only had to draw and label his family – poor little love can hardly write his name!

At the risk of sounding like an old woman, I’m sure that homework was never this hard in my day. In fact, I don’t think we even got homework till senior school.

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Pamela · 792 weeks ago

1. Known as The Lady with the Lamp
2. Born in Florence, Italy
3. Gained experience by working with the sick in Germany against her family's wishes
4. Never married
5. Felt called by God to be a nurse

4 + 32 = 36
4 + 28 = 32
32 + 28 = 60
4 - 32 **
4 - 28 **
32 - 28 = 4
28 - 32 **
28 - 4 = 24
32 - 4 = 28
** Surely negative numbers can't be part of a 7-year old's math assignment!

Is sum a general term for a math expression? Couldn't figure out whether to include the substraction ones but the - sign was part of the assignment, right? Here in the US, the sum is the answer to an addition problem.

Sorry, I'll have to skip the plant exercise - I'm hopeless at drawing!

I think Miss Frugal will be ready for Oxford by the time she's 12 at this rate!

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Charlotte, Cottontails · 792 weeks ago

Dear Mrs Frugal (hope I have got that right)

I have been following Ernest and am so looking forward to hearing about his stay with you, especially as your posts are so witty!!

Nice to meet you and the other Frugals!

That homework... man, that's hard. Seven? Blimey.

Maybe Ernest will be able to lend a hand (foot, beak?) this week?

Charlotte
xx

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notesfromthefrugaltr · 792 weeks ago

I loved homework until I got into an elite school at age 8 and was given 3 hours a night, no joke, 3 hours a night!!! One of the first nights I had to answer 100 questions about Winston Churchill - a very long night with an encyclopedia and history books!

I often think I do not know what people did before google and wikipedia, it just makes life so much easier :)

I really like your blog!

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amberlife · 792 weeks ago

I'm sure the questions when I did my degree weren't this hard!!!

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Smiffy's Blog · 792 weeks ago

Don't start me off hun....Sorry, it's way too hard for her age. Sounds like SATS testing. In the end the parents end up doing most of it anyway. They are not allowed to just be kids now days are they. It's all about numbers on paper as the better the result the better the school looks. Sue x