The Atlantic article about Esmee’s dad doing her homework for a week was used by a mixed method because the Father talks mainly about how much time he spends on the homework each day in hours (Quantitative Info) and uses information and past events (Qualitative Info) to get a look at how much work his daughter Esmee is doing. The father talks about the certain equations that he was given and he talked about how difficult the work he was given back then as well. For qualitative info, he makes observations and uses past experiences to compare his work to ethics to her daughters work ethics today. Staying up all night struggling to solve equations and reading for English classes is what affected Esmee in negative ways. He has talks with his daughter as well as if they were like interviews. “I don’t remember how much Homework was assigned to me in the eighth grade.” Says the father who claims he probably had less work compared to Esmee, who he claims is given too much work. “I am surprised by the amount of reading.” Says Karl, “Reading and writing is what I do for a living, but in my middle age, I’ve slowed down. So a good day of reading for me, assuming I like the book and I’m not looking for quotable passages, is between 50 and 100 pages. Seventy-nine pages while scanning for usable material—for a magazine essay or for homework—seems like at least two hours of reading.” Karl states that he has slowed down to what he used to apply with his work and he compares his work to the struggling hours of homework Esmee is working with.Karl believes that the math is easier than he thought. “We are simplifying equations, which involves reducing (–18m²n)² × (–(1/6)mn²) to –54m⁵n⁴, which I get the hang of again after Esmee’s good instructions. I breeze through those 11 equations in about 40 minutes and even correct Esmee when she gets one wrong...”  He gives examples and he also gives the amount of work he put in along with how it makes him feel.