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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harford County students continue to improve their proficiency in math and English Language Arts, according to Maryland ...

Thompson learned this strategy during a series of trainings on improving math instruction for multilingual learners, a term that refers to all students who speak a language other than English at ...