The language most bilingual people use to mentally solve math problems isn't necessarily their native language or even the language that is most prevalent in their environment. Psychological research ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Jody Nolf is an associate language and literacy specialist at Vista Higher Learning. For more than 20 years, she taught English and reading to middle and high school students. Six years ago, she ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if ...

This post is by Monica Alatorre, Senior Manager for Development & Communications at Envision Education. The scene: A typical traditional math class in America. The players: A student who is an English ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Teaching preschool children simple math-related vocabulary and concepts, such as "more," "a lot," "some" and "fewer," improves their mathematical skills, according to a new a ...

What's the best language for learning math? Hint: You're not reading it. As the WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports: Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish use simpler number words and express math ...

Communication between Earthlings and intelligent aliens should be based on mathematics — exo-arithmetic greetings that form a shared lingo, some researchers say. The idea is that mathematics is as ...

I was thinking back to calculus, double integrals, series, etc. and these seem like nothing more than for loops or recursive functions. But if I were to look at a calculus equation now, I would have a ...