The teachers handed the parents an assignment, on fourth-grade fractions. One mother tapped her fingers and furrowed her brow. Parents put their heads together over a white board and debated whether ...

When faced with a complicated math problem, one fourth-grader decided to pass on answering, instead invoking the “girl code.” Last week, Maddy Douglas was assigned a number of word problems in her ...

MURRAY, Utah (WPVI) -- A fourth-grader in Utah refused to answer a math question because she says it was rude. The math problem, which is part of the curriculum provided by Eureka Math, asked students ...

Every now and again, homework takes social media by storm. Sometimes it’s a young child’s vexing assignment, or a classic brain teaser. But the problem above that’s stirred such debate is really just ...