Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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