Are thoughts more fundamental to our reality than particles? "Well, how can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" Dorothy asked the scarecrow. And after a moment's glance toward the sky, he replied ...

Nineteenth-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss used to joke that he could calculate before he could talk. Maybe it was no joke. Recent work casts doubt on the notion that language ...

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A member of our research community, Terhi Vessonen and her co-authors, looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s ...

Helping upper elementary students master math vocabulary can transform how they think, talk, and succeed in math. From colorful word walls to interactive anchor charts, teachers are finding creative ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.