Math may be considered a universal language, but linguistic difficulties still often hamstring English-language learners’ ability to demonstrate what they know on standardized assessments. A new study ...

Do you stare at a math word problem and feel completely stuck? You're not alone. These problems mix reading comprehension ...

The common math assessments under development by PARCC will be translated into Spanish and possibly other languages, but whether English-language learners will have access to non-English versions will ...

Language translation is a notoriously difficult task for humans, let alone computers. But in trying to solve that problem Google has stumbled across a clever trick, that involves treating them like ...

Big advances in math can happen when mathematicians move ideas into areas where they seem like they shouldn’t belong. My latest story is about the mathematician June Huh, who came into the field late ...