A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student’s homes, according to the Allen Parish ...

On Tuesday, at Oberlin High School, a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign. Deputies say another student made a comment that the symbol looked like a ...

COPS in the US have launched an investigation into a school pupil after students said the square root symbol looked like a gun. Police were called to Oberlin High School in Louisiana on February 20 ...