This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Students’grasp of the non-mathematical language in a mathematics story problem—such as vocabulary and syntax—may have an important effect on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Separate math and language networks segregate naturally when listeners pay attention to one type over the other, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Mathematical language borrows ...

“Unless you’re going to be an engineer or scientist, you’ll never use math”. This is one of the most utterly false statements that I have ever heard. Just as humans use verbal sounds in order to ...

That’s physics historian Graham Farmelo. Long-time listeners may recall hearing him talk about his Paul Dirac biography, The Strangest Man, and the subsequent Churchill’s Bomb, about the early British ...