Teaching academic vocabulary in math class can boost your students' understanding immediately.Students might know that the term 'quotient' refers to the answer in a division problem. However, once they study the history of the word, the Latin root, and other words that are related to that root, your students will have a much better understanding of what it means to find the 'quotient.'They will also have a better understanding of division as repeated subtraction. The quotient literally tells us