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 ...

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You may think you left math behind when you finished school. But if you have children, you’re in for a rude awakening. Many parents have used Twitter to lament the days when their children ask for ...

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.

Very few kids like homework, but some assignments are worse than others. We asked New Jersey students to tell us about the homework they can't stand, the ones that drive them nuts! I don't like math ...

Are you a college or high school student who hates math class? Microsoft’s got your back. With the company’s latest Microsoft Math Solver app, you can now let the app do all of the heavy lifting for ...

It’s not unusual for the youngest child in a large family to sometimes feel like an afterthought. They are the ones who often receive the hand-me-down clothing from their siblings, the ones whose baby ...

In second grade, I stopped being able to do math. One night I went to do my long-division homework and I couldn’t figure it out. My mom demanded that I sit with my math teacher because my sudden ...

How soon we forget grade school. Not so much the look or smell (Crayola Crayons, anyone?) or feel, but the stuff we were taught. Then our own children come to us for help with homework that stumps and ...