one addition to school context..

Today at school I actually saw a really great relation to the kid's culture. The teacher was asking the kids math questions such as "is 999 more or less than 1000?". The kids looked really confused and bewildered and after asking different versions of this question and many of the kids answering incorrectly, she asked the same questions in spanish. Immediately the kids recognized what the quesiton was really asking and they got the answeres correct. Just thought I'd add that..it was interesting to see.