Using Language Strategies for Math

I just found an article that uses language strategies. A key idea this article gives is using "math talk" in the classroom. This is how math was taught in ancient times. This "math talk" encourages ideas and sparks new connections. Sometimes, we, unknowingly, remove peer education from the classrooms. Peer discussion is very important in a math classroom. Most of the topics are pseudo-foreign. What I mean by that is, the student has been using this knowledge in their everyday life, and now we assign a formal name to it. Ask a kid, "What number plus 3 is five?" and they'll respond "2." Now write "x+3=5" and the problem instantly becomes more difficult in the eyes of the student. Here is the link to the article http://suse-step.stanford.edu/resources/LanguageSite/Math_Strategies.html

Let me know what you think.