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 ...

A study of people in Nicaragua has concluded that humans need language in order to understand large numbers. Members of the group were born deaf and never learned Spanish or a formal sign language ...

Talk to your toddler. And use numbers when you talk. Doing so may give a child a better head start in math than teaching her to memorize 1-2-3 counting routines.

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 ...

The language a child speaks affects the rate at which they learn number words, and hearing number words in natural conversation – not just in counting routines – is a critical part of learning ...

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 15, No. 2, Minorities and Mathematics (Mar., 1984), pp. 134-144 (11 pages) When the language of instruction is English, the learning of mathematics ...

Veselin talked about mathematics, showed his mathematical models, and challenged the group with a few puzzles. Later on Tuesday, Veselin did a few math hands on activities with smaller groups of ...

Dear Editor, In the late ‘70s, a governmental decision was made to have primary school students taught not just language and math but also subjects like ...