Not confident in your maths skills? Maybe leave your kids to it.
Turns out that not being very maths-savvy can have a pretty damaging effect on your kids, especially if you struggle through it while trying to help.
A new study from the University of Chicago has found that when parents who aren’t confident in their maths skills try to help their children with homework, they end up passing on their maths-related nerves.
Led by Erin. A Maloney, the researchers analysed more than 400 six to eight-year-olds, testing their maths skills once at the beginning of the school year, and once at the end.