A mom was left puzzled after spotting something unusual about her 8-year-old daughter's math homework. The importance of homework has been the subject of debate for some time now, with many arguing ...

I’ll be the first to admit that math isn’t my strongest subject. I’d even go as far as saying I’m pretty much innumerate (illiterate but for numbers – not a real word but go with it.) With that being ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

When his wife, frustrated and overwhelmed, told their 13-year-old to “shut up” during the chaos, the tension didn’t end with ...

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The optimal amount of homework for 13-year-old students is about an hour a day, a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Educational Psychology suggests. And spending too much time on ...

An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork." A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil." What could be so horrible? Grade-school math ...

When she realized she couldn't help out her daughter, Amanda Sarno had to have an "embarrassing" conversation with her ...

MATH 51 is a rite of passage for many Stanford students. And over the years, it has acquired a reputation as a challenging course (which may now be outdated given the major overhaul it has undergone).

Shawano County Sheriff's Deputy Chase Mason wasn't too confident with his math skills, but he knew he wanted to "give it my best shot" Courtesy of the Shawano County Sheriff's Office The Shawano ...

Google's Socratic is checking your kids' math homework, and that's a good thing. The tool is powered by optical character recognition (OCR), which uses scanning and artificial intelligence. The ...