Beckham struggles with son's homework

[Debs]

David Beckham has admitted that he struggles with his six-year-old son's maths homework.

The England captain was clueless when Brooklyn asked for help and had to request wife Victoria's assistance.

"Their homework is so hard these days," Beckham told The Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine. "I sat down with Brooklyn the other day and I was so like, 'Victoria, maybe you should do the homework tonight.'

"It's totally done different to what I was teached when I was at school. I was like, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'"

[hazey]

oh dear me and Victoria, could do it :rotfl: How can maths for a six year old be...He said it has changed since he was at school..... so 2+2 dont equal 4 now :rotfl:. I hope their son grows up to have some brain.

[Chloe O'brien]

that has not come as any great surprise that he could not help with the homework

[alan45]

"It's totally done different to what I was teached when I was at school. '"

Obviously English wasnt his strong point either :rolleyes: :lol:

[Cornishbabe]

Well now we know why he is a footballer. You dont need to be clever for that!

[alan45]

I hope he doesnt need any help with his reading as Mrs Beckham admitted to never having read a book

[Cornishbabe]

I hope he doesnt need any help with his reading as Mrs Beckham admitted to never having read a book

She's never read a book :eek: Thats madness how can you never have read a book. Shes wrote one! :wall:

[squillyfer]

to be fair my mum and dad find my homework confusing, school is really different now and so is homework

[Katy]

Why would you admit that. we all know hes thick but thats just asking for it. How can any one find a 6 year olds maths homework hard. I could understand if it was equations or something but its probably simple subtraction.

[pookie1968uk]

they do the maths now completely different to how we used to do it. the working out is totally alien to my husband and i but as he was better at maths than me he helps her with maths and i help with the english!

[shannisrules]

to be fair my mum and dad find my homework confusing, school is really different now and so is homework

yes but your not six years old are you , there homework is probably adding difficult numbers and stuff even i could do it and im 14

[squillyfer]

yes but your not six years old are you , there homework is probably adding difficult numbers and stuff even i could do it and im 14

Yeah but thats because your in the system. Things are totally different to how they used to be. For a start we learn lots of different things nowadays and things are taught differently. You could do it because you went through the same education as Brooklyn and would understand it but to people older than us the wording is completely wrong, I'm not surprised it didnt make sense

[shannisrules]

anyway do they not employ a nanny to do those sort of things

[squillyfer]

I'm pretty sure they do spend some time with their kids the nanny doesnt look after them all the time

[~*~Leanne~*~]

six year olds homework is easy and has she never read a book

[Cornishbabe]

Im sure a 6 year olds homework cant be that hard?

[Chloe-Elise]

They are excellently matched then. How can she have never read a book?! Thats crazy, and I can't believe he could not do his son's homework,it can't have been that hard!

[the_watts_rule]

I can't believe he couldn't do a six year olds homework.

[alan45]

I can't believe he couldn't do a six year olds homework.I can. After all he cant even tell the difference between his wife's knickers and his own :rotfl:

[Richie_lecturer]

When a friend of Mr Beckham asked him about his wife's knickers, he thought his friend meant that his wife had been kidnapped.

[feelingyellow]

:rotfl: Bless him! When I was 6 I found Maths Homework really easy! Though I was quite good at Maths then... when you get older and it's about algerbra and stuff it gets a lot harder!

[Meh]

A six year old would be doing basic maths, and I mean basic.

If I was a conman, I would have him at the top of my list.

[Dr. Tangliss]

Why does this thread not surprise me, lol! I mean, I don't think Victoria and David have two brain cells to rub together between them. At least David has a talent though, poor Victoria has nothing.

[Jojo]

At 6, Becks really should be able to help. I can understand at 11/12 not being able to understand it, because when my son brought home his maths homework, the first thing I asked him was to show me how they are taught it, so i could make sure I wasn't going to show him a different way of working questions out. Anyway, I did not understand one iota of how he was working out the questions - long addition and subraction totally confused me! And I got high grade maths and stats gcse's so I'm not daft by any means.

But at 6, he should be able to understand it....

[alan45]

There is a brilliant spoof quiz for the Beckhams in todays Daily Mail, unfortunately there is no link on their website