Mom Has ‘Embarrassing’ Conversation with Her 6-Year-Old Daughter’s Teacher After She Doesn’t Understand Her Homework (Exclusive)

When she realized she couldn’t help out her daughter, Amanda Sarno had to have an “embarrassing” conversation with her teacher.

The mom shared a now-viral video, first posted to TikTok on Dec. 4, after she realized she was unable to help her daughter, Mackenzie, with her math homework. “I just had to have the most embarrassing conversation with Mackenzie’s teacher because at 6 years old, she’s now at the point where I don’t understand the homework that she’s doing anymore,” Sarno began.

“So I had to go to her teacher to be like, ‘Could you teach me?’ so I could teach her,” she continued.

She then panned the video to show her daughter’s math homework, which displayed a Common Core method of doing math. Sarno then explained the new method, admitting at the end that she still doesn’t get it. “Why can’t I just say 7 + 5 is 12? I don’t understand,” she said.

Now, Sarno tells PEOPLE that she’s often the one to step in her daughter when she needs assistance with her assignments. “If Kenzie needs help with homework, I am typically the one that helps her,” Sarno says.

“However, she doesn’t often need help,” the mom continues, explaining, “She’s a very independent worker. This situation was a bit different though because she had a pretty big surgery in October so she was on homebound, meaning her teacher came over every day after school to teach her for two hours.”

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“And then during the day, I was doing the work with her and reviewing everything from the day before,” she adds.

Sarno, who says she generally enjoys math and considers herself good at it, admits she “immediately” realized she didn’t understand what was on the page before her.

“I thought I was looking at fractions for a second,” she says.

Despite having to go to the teacher, Sarno explains that she understood the method pretty quickly. “I understand the method and I understand the thought process of how it will help them later in algebra and more advanced math,” she says.

Yet, “I still don’t however understand why she’s learning this at 6 years old,” she continues. “In my opinion, this method should be taught in double digits [at] the earliest. Single digit addition and subtraction should just be second nature, but that’s neither here nor there.”