LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Police dispatchers are trained to deal with a number of situations, and a dispatcher in Indiana had to know her numbers when a boy called 911 seeking help with his homework.

After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

A 911 dispatcher has to be ready for anything, including one of the most terrifying topics for people of all ages: math. An Indiana dispatcher had to put her grade school skills to the test recently ...