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 ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The brain areas that light up for the language of geometry are what Dr. Dehaene and his former Ph.D. student, Marie Amalric, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, called the math-responsive network.