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A Mississippi mother took issue with a math problem from her third-grade daughter’s homework that seems to ask for more than a third-grader can answer. It also left some on the internet stumped when it was posted on Reddit. Is this a fair question for Grade 3?A few years back in 2017, Dusty Sappington, of Terry, Mississippi, posted the following math problem of her 8-year-old daughter Izzy’s homework on Reddit. The mom wasn’t sure what to make of it. It read: “Janell had 15 marbles. She lost some of them. How many does Janell have now?”
