Teachers can get kids comfortable with math concepts by using numeracy-focused vocabulary in everyday classroom activities.

Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms, that too many classrooms focus too much on ...

We use math, the term, indiscriminately. I think we teach arithmetic really very well up through grades, let's say, five or six. We do it. But then, ...

As the nation strives to increase the rigor of math instruction, educators are cleaning up their math vocabulary. Gone are those friendly, metaphorical words — squares don’t have “corners ...

Called the Velázquez Spanish and English Glossary for the Mathematics Classroom, the reference book contains more than 10,000 entries for math words or phrases that the editors have decided are ...

When explaining to students why the theorem describes the rule, the instructor uses math terms — “adjacent side,” “opposite side,” “hypotenuse” — that they’ll need to use on a math test, said ...

For example, in a math problem that is written in a narrative form, teachers may tell English learners to circle words that are repeated often in the problem, said Crystal Hoffmann, a project ...