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 ...

Malinda Evans spends about an hour and a half each day teaching mathematics to her 5th graders at Navajo Elementary School in the working-class South Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque, N.M. Whether ...

Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Teaching preschool children simple math-related vocabulary and concepts, such as "more," "a lot," "some" and "fewer," improves their mathematical skills, according to a new a ...

Rob Manning / OPB Researchers at the New America think tank have named Portland's David Douglas School District a national model for language instruction. "The David Douglas instructional shift that ...

Fifth-grade students at Woodward Elementary School had an interesting math assignment this fall: watching college football games. Though seemingly fun on the surface, the assignment had an ulterior ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

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 ...

“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 ...