# Teaching Math for Emergent Bilinguals: Building on Culture, Language, and Identity

- By: Ji-Yeong I - Author / Ricardo Martinez
- Publisher: Iowa State University
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/teaching-math-for-emergent-bilinguals-building-on-culture-language-and-identity)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- eBook: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/teachingmath/
- PDF: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/teachingmath/
- Online: https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/teachingmath/

This book is designed for pre-service/in-service teachers and others who will work or work with K–12 students who have linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds, especially students of other languages (English language learners/Emergent bilingual/multilingual). The core concept of this course is helping teachers understand the needs of various Emergent Bilinguals (a.k.a. English language learners (ELLs)/English Learners (ELs), learn to use their language and culture as a resource in mathematics classrooms and implement research-based instructional strategies that are effective to teach mathematics for Emergent Bilinguals.