{"id":219858,"date":"2026-01-24T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mom.com\/?p=219858"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:22:32","slug":"tiktok-video-homework-question-spiraling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/news\/tiktok-video-homework-question-spiraling","title":{"rendered":"Mom Shares \u2018Impossible\u2019 Homework Question That Had the Whole House Spiraling"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Can you even really say you experienced the full spectrum of <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/kids\/38698-12-moms-tell-us-best-parts-each-childhood-stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">childhood<\/a> if you weren&rsquo;t crying over your homework with your parents in the room at some point? I&rsquo;m still traumatized by my dad trying to explain math to me over 33 years ago. In a hilarious yet extremely relatable TikTok video, one mom shares the absolutely impossible <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/kids-2\/how-handle-it-when-child-hates-doing-homework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homework<\/a> question her child brought home&mdash;and the simple word problem made the whole house spiral.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Kai has 10 marbles,&rdquo; the poor, sniffling little boy reads aloud. &ldquo;Seven are blue. The rest are red. How many red flowers does Kai have?&rdquo;<\/p><p>If you&rsquo;re thinking, &ldquo;hold up now, how did we go from marbles to flowers?!!&rdquo; you&rsquo;re not alone. Because HOW DID WE GO FROM MARBLES TO FLOWERS? Seriously though! <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@healinginmotherhood_\/video\/7592849811108318478\" data-video-id=\"7592849811108318478\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@healinginmotherhood_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@healinginmotherhood_?refer=embed\">@healinginmotherhood_<\/a> <p>So many questions. Why are we testing them right before winter break?! Why make it so confusing for a 1st grader. Also, for his parents. We laughed. He cried. Kaia has no flowers was the final answer. But we still dont know if it was right! LMAO  <a title=\"momtok\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/momtok?refer=embed\">#momtok<\/a> <a title=\"homeworkstruggles\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/homeworkstruggles?refer=embed\">#homeworkstruggles<\/a> <a title=\"math\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/math?refer=embed\">#math<\/a> <a title=\"parenting\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/parenting?refer=embed\">#parenting<\/a> <a title=\"motherhoodunfiltered\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/motherhoodunfiltered?refer=embed\">#motherhoodunfiltered<\/a> <\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"&#9836; original sound - Ashley | Healing in Motherhood\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7592849963656039181?refer=embed\">&#9836; original sound &ndash; Ashley | Healing in Motherhood<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>My initial reaction was, &ldquo;Surely this must be a typo because WHAT ON EARTH?!&rdquo;<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I&rsquo;m crashing out right along with this family. <\/h2><p>&ldquo;So many questions. Why are we testing them right before winter break?!&rdquo; the mom writes in her caption to the video. &ldquo;Why make it so confusing for a first grader. Also, for his parents. We laughed. He cried. Kai has no flowers was the final answer. But we still dont know if it was right! LMAO.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Sounds right to me and every other person on the internet! Because where did the damn flowers come from and what do they have to do with marbles and mathematics?!<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Commenters agree the crash out here is &ldquo;valid.&rdquo;<\/h2><p>&ldquo;The teacher is rage baiting &#128514;&#128514;&#128514;,&rdquo; one woman wrote. &ldquo;AI generated worksheets,&rdquo; says another. &ldquo;Probably not the teacher&rsquo;s fault, but the publisher. And the crash out is 100% legit.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Oh God, are we <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/news\/chilling-ai-generated-ad-may-have-parents-rethinking-posting-their-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letting AI<\/a> make worksheets for kids at school now? Is that a thing? Please say no. Someone pleeeeease say no. All the commenters agree on another thing, too: Kai has ZERO FLOWERS. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Because who is giving and\/or receiving flowers in a marble economy? <\/h2><p>Here&rsquo;s how this would go down in my house: Everyone has a different interpretation of whether the flowers are a typo or a trick question. Everybody is wrong. And then we just start yelling words like &ldquo;FLOWERS&rdquo; and &ldquo;MARBLES&rdquo; across the kitchen like we&rsquo;re in an escape room designed by a maniac.<\/p><p>Because nothing bonds a family quite like being brought to the brink by a worksheet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you even really say you experienced the full spectrum of childhood if you weren&rsquo;t crying over your homework with your parents in the room at some point? I&rsquo;m still traumatized by my dad trying to explain math to me over 33 years ago. In a hilarious yet extremely relatable TikTok video, one mom shares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":219859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-01-24T15:40:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"cc09cb99-0d09-41b3-af07-69f4958ac6cf","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-24T15:40:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzAnLmQ0JQbOvB2n0lYrGzw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52],"tags":[5481,346,2469],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mom Shares &#039;Impossible&#039; 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