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 ...

OPINION:IMAGINE HOW SIMPLE life would be if we all spoke only one language. It would be like the convenience of not having to change money in the eurozone, but in a linguistic sense. No more ...

A lecturer at the C.K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Science (CKT UTAS), Prof Kwara Nantomah has said that mathematics is the only understandable language globally. This is because every ...

Noted Economist Prof. Ha-Joon Chang, who teaches at Cambridge University, said “95% of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargon and mathematics”. This statement ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

Chandan Singh Gughtyal has been teaching Maths in boarding schools in India for about 28 years. He has experience of working as an assistant housemaster, housemaster, resident dorm parent, and dorm ...

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 middle ...

The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream of poets, philosophers, and spiritual ...

Being a teacher doesn’t mean guiding one person, it means finding a way to equally educate dozens of children with different backgrounds, and possibly languages. Middle school math teacher Amanda Yost ...