Includes updates and/or revisions. New research shows a lack of language skills can hamstring a student’s ability to understand basic concepts in mathematics. A series of studies led by Susan ...

Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...

Students who can't understand instructions for math problems face unnecessary barriers to achievement. Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just ...

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 ...

In this weekly series, LiveScience examines the psychology and sociology of opposite human behavior and personality types. Do you know what "abecedarian" means? What about the solution to 250 x 11?

Mathematics has long been seen as a subject of formulas, equations, and abstract concepts that exist only on the pages of textbooks. For many students, this abstraction creates a disconnect ...

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

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 ...

Rob Manning / OPB Researchers at the New America think tank have named Portland's David Douglas School District a national model for language instruction. "The David Douglas instructional shift that ...