For young English-language learners, language skills can be a barrier not just to reading but math as well. Educators and researchers working in two school districts here hope that helping ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent ...

Teachers in three school systems learned strategies to help multilingual learners engage with rigorous math assignments.

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.

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 ...

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 way in which teachers and textbooks use language and different metaphors in mathematics education determines how pupils develop their number sense, according to new research from Sweden.

Multilingual math whiz’: 4-year-old boy from Illinois accepted into Mensa with genius IQ - ‘We noticed very early when he had ...

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 ...

Some people are math wizards while others have a particular knack in verbal skills, with scientists saying a combination of nature and nurture, that is, development, genes, environment and even ...