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 ...

Math is a language that builds on itself. Not understanding the foundations of math is like not understanding the structure of a language. Related: In addition to focusing on comprehension, we also ...

If math never quite stuck for you, Ben Orlin is here to change that. He says think of math as a language. Numbers are the nouns and the arithmetic operations are verbs. This episode, learning the ...

Math often gets talked about as a language with logic as its grammar. But when you learn a language like Spanish, you can casually pick up some words and immediately unlock a new culture.

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

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for ...

Duolingo, a quick-and-easy learning app that boasts more than 128 million monthly active users worldwide — mostly for its language offerings — has expanded into mathematics with elementary and ...

Her “math talk” routine is key to the students’ understanding, helping them develop number sense, fluency, place value understanding, and practice language skills.

Coding is not just for the engineer or math wiz. New research hints at the cognitive bases of learning computer programming and could make it more accessible.

Not a math person? You may be better at learning to code than you think.