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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...

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 ...