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 ...

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 ...

Thank you for the article “Math: the Not-So-Universal Language,” (July 13, 2005), which relates how some schools are using innovative strategies to teach math to students with limited English ...

The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving mathematics instruction from grade 8-14 and supporting teacher education ...

GRASS LAKE, MI - Math teachers were some of Lisa Malmo’s biggest inspirations growing up. Now she strives to bring that same motivation to her own students. Malmo, 54, has spent her entire 25-year ...

When Easton entrepreneur Bob Sun was 9 years old, his family moved from China to West Philadelphia. He was dropped into school knowing no English. The plane ride across an ocean took away his first ...

Isabel Becerra is the sheltered-instruction facilitator for the multilingual programs department in the Garland ISD in Texas. She was born in Bolivia and has been an educator since 1992. She is a ...

First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...