Hoda Kotb (L) and Jenna Bush Hager (R).Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty
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Jenna Bush Hageris getting real about how tough kids' homework can be!
On Monday’s episode ofToday with Hoda & Jenna, Bush Hager, 42, chatted with co-hostHoda Kotb, 59, about helping her kids with their homework, revealing that her daughter’s math homework is a little bit too hard for her.
After Bush Hager says that she used to help her daughterMila, 10, with her spelling homework, Kotb starts to lament that some of the homework their kids get is really difficult.
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“Mila’s math homework is what I did in Calculus when I failed it the first time,” Bush Hager jokes. “When I failed it the first time, which I still have dreams that I’m walking through my high school going to the class which I can’t find ‘cause I failed it.”
“Mila’s 5th grade homework — and I hear her going, ‘You don’t get this? This is above your math level?’ to me. And I’m like, ‘Uh, no. I understand it.’ She’s like, ‘So do this problem. Show me how you do this problem.'”
“And then I have to either sneak out or have Henry do it for me. I have to go right back to that math class in high school. It is so hard. And they don’t do it the right way — good luck!”
“They don’t do it the way that we learned it! Remember when you carried the 1 and all that? They don’t carry the 1s,” Bush Hager explains.
When Kotb expresses her shock, Bush Hager continues, “They don’t carry the 1s anymore! I don’t know why. Somebody thought, ‘Hey, let’s mess with all the parents in the world and change the way we teach math.’ So even though [the parents] wouldn’t know how to do it anyway, now they really don’t know how to do it.”
Bush Hager shares her three kids — Hal, 4, Poppy Louise, 8, and Mila — with husband Henry Hager, 45.
source: people.com
