Interested in helping your child with math homework? You might need a math-English dictionary. There’s not a lot of “borrowing” in subtraction these days. Instead there’s “regrouping” or “decomposing.

Students who can't understand instructions for math problems face unnecessary barriers to achievement. Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just ...

FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT: Hat tip to Richard Byrne for this find: Math Vocabulary Cards is a free iPad app for elementary students that blends a simple online index card design with math vocabulary ...

Cindy Garcia has been a bilingual educator for 17 years and is currently a districtwide specialist for bilingual/ESL mathematics. She is active on Twitter @CindyGarciaTX and on her blog: One of the ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

Math isn’t just about numbers. It’s about language, too. Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose ...

Thinking back on Halloween, were you a “dump all your candy into one bowl” child? Or did you enjoy meticulously sorting your treats into a post-Halloween candy store and trading with others? If you ...

The State University of Campinas (Unicamp), in São Paulo, Brazil, is developing a project to increase the vocabulary of mathematics in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). The "Mathematics + Libras" ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach math? In Part One, Cindy Garcia, Danielle Ngo, Patrick Brown, and Andrea Clark shared ...