Language as a Tool of Control

When students are learning a foreign language, it is notable that some can express their thoughts beautifully with a limited vocabulary. Still, others that know the language much better struggle to make themselves understood.

How well somebody communicates in a new language has ver...

• A language normally contains vocabulary, meaning, grammer, syntax, narrative and a set of people who use and understand the various symbols.
• The syntax, vocabulary and grammar of mathematics forms a system of communication which any language must have to qualify as one.
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• Many students find numbers and symbols confusing, and using a familiar language to describe an equation makes the subject easy to understand.
• Solving word problems, where nouns, verbs and modifiers are translated into mathematical equations is a good exercise.
• As mathema...