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.

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 ...

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 ...

Encouraging students to use their first language helps them make math connections, increasing their understanding and engagement.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...