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Mathematics: Subject Guide

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Featured Library Resources: Mathematics

Recommended Databases: Mathematics

Mathematics Education
  • Education Database
    The database gives access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. It covers the leading full-text journals in education, not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
  • Education Source
    This database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers covering all levels of educationfrom early childhood to higher educationas well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
    Education source contains the fulltext for more than 1900 journals and 550 books, indexing and abstracts for over 3500 journals, and includes citations for over 5.5 million articles including book reviews.
  • ERIC
    This US Department of Educational Resource Information Center database contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. The database also contains full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information.
Multidisciplinary Databases
  • Academic Search Premier Best Bet
    Academic Search Premier is one of EBSCOhost's full-text databases. It covers full-text articles from nearly 3,200 scholarly publications, and numerous peer-reviewed journals with a coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
  • ProQuest Central Best Bet
    ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
  • GALE Research Complete Best Bet New
    Gale Research Complete provides subscription access to the largest package of primary and secondary sources available to libraries today, covering journals, newspapers, eBooks, literature resources and archives. Empowering users at all academic levels, from the undergraduate student to the experienced researcher, and covering nearly every research area and discipline, Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative and unique content
  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, citations, abstracts and reports from a variety of scholarly sources provided by academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and open access publishers.
    Searching Google Scholar from Guarini Library homepage, full text resources that are available from NJCU Library-subscribed databases or electronic journals will be automatically accessible (Gothic ID needed for off-campus access).
  • JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection
    The database contains almost 3,000 journals and primary sources. The renewed name: JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection replaces our previous JSTOR subscriptions with subsections, e.g.: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Security Studies, and Business & Economics Collections. Please note that our subscription does not include JSTOR ebooks or Artstor beyond what might be open access content.
  • SAGE Premier
    The database provides full-text access to over 645 peer-reviewed journal dating back to 1999. It includes leading international peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. Subject coverage includes business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, medicine and many more.

Online Library Catalog: WorldCat Discovery

  • Use any combination of keywords, subjects, authors, or titles
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  • Limit results by format, date, full-text, and peer-review
  • Search for books, journals, and articles in other libraries and request these items using Inter-library Loan
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Selected Links

Comprehensive Guides

  • Ask Dr. Math - College Level Archive - A question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
  • Mathematics Archive - Organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources.
  • Mathematics WWW Virtual Library - Sorted in many categories, such as Addresses, Department Web Servers, High School Servers, Software, Specialized Fields, TeX Archives etc.
  • The Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics - Short articles that introduce to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information.

Algebra

  • College Algebra -- ACE Practice Tests - From Textbook Site for College Algebra 5th Ed.
  • College Algebra Review – ACE Practice Tests - From Mathematics Student Resource Center.
  • College Algebra - An excellent support site for those requiring additional college algebra support, provided by WTAMU.
  • College Algebra Tutorial - An online tutorial that shows you solving problems step by step.
  • S.O.S. MATHematics - Algebra - A resource of math review material for learning Algebra.
  • YouTube - College Algebra Tutorial Preview

Calculus

Lesson Plans for Math (K-12)

  • Ask ERIC Lesson Plans - A collection of math lesson plans for grades k-12.
  • Fun Mathematics Lessons By Cynthia Lanius - Math lessons for K-12.
  • Mathematics Lesson Plans - A large collection of lesson plans on math topics for grades k-12, from the Columbia Education Center.
  • edHelper-Math Lesson Plans - Curriculum for teaching math pre-school -12.
  • ExploreMath.com - Lesson plans and teaching ideas.
  • The ExplorerTM - A collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education.

Resources for Math Ed. (K-12)

  • AAA Math - Interactive practice and estimation games sorted by grade level and math topic.
  • American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) - Provides information about the AMC, how to register, and has practice problems.
  • ACEPT: Arizona Collaborative For Excellence In The Preparation Of Teachers - The
    ACEPT has implemented math and science reforms that are affecting the preparation of K-12 teachers in Arizona.
  • Balance - A great game for students K-2 that teaches algebra skills.
  • Educational Java Programs - Teaching programs in the areas of mathematics and science with emphasis in problem solving for grades K to 12.
  • FunBrain - Has games like "Math Baseball" and "Change Maker."
  • The Math Forum - An online center for mathematic education from Drexel University, provides resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services.
  • PlaneMath - This site combines math with aeronautics.
  • Projects Ideas for mathematics learning and teaching - A part of TERC homepage. TERC is an education research and development organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Principles and Standards for School Mathematics - NCTM Standards.
  • Teacher2Teacher (T2T®) - A resource for teachers and parents who have questions about teaching mathematics.
  • Word Problems For Kids - Word problems for different grade levels (5-12).

E-Reference (Freely Available)

  • Ask Dr. Math - A question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
  • Encyclopaedia of Mathematics - An online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, by Michiel Hazewinkel.
  • MathWorld - A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia.
  • The PRIME (Platonic Realms Mathematics Encyclopedia) - A Math encyclopedia including TOPICS: Basic Math, Algebra, Analysis, Biography, Calculus, Comp Sci, Discrete, Economics, Geometry, Graph Thry, History, Foundations, Number Thry.
  • Math Quotes - The Platonic Realms Interactive database of Math Quotations from the Math Academy.
  • The Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics - A searchable site provides a collection of articles about the many subfields of math and includes definitions, brief biographies, and explanations.