Learning mathematics is much like learning a new language — it opens doors that were once closed. Rather than seeing ...

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. The way ...

This week’s question is: What are the best strategies for teaching Common Core math to English language learners? I can speak from experience in saying that Common Core has not made it any easier to ...

What does it mean to apply mathematics? Why is mathematics considered as essential to natural sciences? Why do scientists consider the applicability of mathematics as something mysterious? The ...

National Mathematics Day As teacher shortages and exam-focused pedagogy are creating a crisis, internship programmes are a ...

The languages we speak influence the way that we see the world, in ways most of us may never recognize. For example, researchers report seeing higher savings rates among people whose native language ...

This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. To Arik Kershenbaum, the squeaks and whistles of dolphins and whales hold more than just a ...

Vern Poythress is by any reasonable standard a deeply and widely educated man. He has six academic degrees, a B.S. from CalTech and a PhD from Harvard in mathematics. An M Div, ThM, M Litt, and a ThD ...

Nguyen Huu Thien built on his passion for mathematics to become an associate professor of computer science in the U.S. and ...

In the wake of the NCLB legislation, several recent analyses have examined the measured school achievement of English language learners (ELLs) at both the national and state level (Batalova, Fix and ...