Thank you for the article “Math: the Not-So-Universal Language,” (July 13, 2005), which relates how some schools are using innovative strategies to teach math to students with limited English ...

This week’s question is: What are the best strategies for teaching Common Core math to English language learners? I can speak from experience in saying that Common Core has not made it any easier to ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 64, No. 2, Multilingual Issues in Mathematics Education (Feb., 2007), pp. 231-238 (8 pages) This communication discusses an aspect of language and culture that ...

Erik Nelson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. To Arik Kershenbaum, the squeaks and whistles of dolphins and whales hold more than just a ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...

From Bill Barton and Pip Neville-Barton, Department of Mathematics and School of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland In your report on evidence that simple arithmetic is not ...