Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices.

This post is by Monica Alatorre, Senior Manager for Development & Communications at Envision Education. The scene: A typical traditional math class in America. The players: A student who is an English ...

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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if ...

Math education can be difficult—for students and teachers. Those difficulties are often magnified when students have learning disabilities such as dyscalculia that can make it difficult to learn math ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In his book Mindstorms (1980) Papert discusses Turtle Geometry as ego-syntonic or fitting the ways of thinking of the child as a geometric ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Students’grasp of the non-mathematical language in a mathematics story problem—such as vocabulary and syntax—may have an important effect on ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows hows how Seattle students are learning foreign languages so they can compete in a global ...

How long does it take? This 120 credit program is designed to be completed in four years. The bachelor of arts degree provides a traditional liberal arts experience through a balanced course of study ...