TUCHMAN: Businesses across Canada are suffering from the lack of something usually very plentiful this time of year -- snow. Work on Montreal's newest cold weather attraction, a snow village is behind schedule. It's just too warm in Montreal to make the snow that sculptors need to build it. That brings us to Alexandra Steele. It's 16 minutes past the hour. Alexandra, a lot of people are wondering, might we miss winter this year in North America?</s>TUCHMAN: Some parents in the state of Georgia are outraged after an elementary school's homework assignment used examples of slavery and beatings in math word problems.</s>TERRANCE BARNETT, PARENT: I'm having to explain to my eight-year-old why slavery, or slave or beatings is in a math problem. And that hurts.</s>CHRISTOPHER BRAXTON, FATHER: Whoever put together this paperwork and everything else, the schools and everything, shouldn't teach it this way.</s>TUCHMAN: School officials say it was a cross-curricular activity.</s>SLOAN ROACH, SCHOOL DISTRICT SPOKESWOMAN: The teachers were trying to do a cross-curricular activity. We understand that there are concerns about these questions. And we agree that these questions were not appropriate.</s>TUCHMAN: After the school finally acknowledged its mistake, the assignments were shredded. We want to hear from you about this. Did the school do enough to handle this really strange situation? Tweet me at Gary Tuchman, CNN and we'll read some of your comments. And in one minute, new technology that could get you off the couch and back at the gym. Don't go anywhere.
Using Slavery To Teach Math