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 ...

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SHAWANO CO., Wisc. -- Some emergency responders in Wisconsin might have second career opportunities as tutors. 911 Dispatcher Kim Krause received a call from a 10-year-old boy. He said he really ...

An Indiana police dispatcher had to take a little trip down memory lane recently when she got a 911 call that took her by surprise. When Antonia Bundy of Lafayette answered the call, she heard a child ...

Nov. 22 (UPI) --A Wisconsin sheriff's deputy came to the "rescue" of a 10-year-old who called 911 to ask for help with math homework. The Shawano County Sheriff's Office said on social media that a ...

RALEIGH -- I knew that we would get here eventually, but I had no idea that I would be struggling with my child's math homework in the first grade. In my defense, I simply wasn't prepared for the ...

It's been more than two decades since Omama Kjerstin Gabrielson had to solve for x and y. When her sixth-grade daughter came home with a pile of math problems to solve, Gabrielson dusted off those old ...

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.

Two years ago I walked into a car rental return center in Charlotte and interrupted Adrianette Felix mid-rant. “I can’t even help my own child do her homework, it’s so frustrating, and I feel so ...

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 ...