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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bush Hager shares her three kids with husband Henry Hager Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Jenna Bush Hager is getting real about how tough kids' homework can be! On Monday's episode of Today ...

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 ...

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 ...