Mathematics Gateways and Resources
The Mathematics Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of mathematics-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources identified by National Science Digital Library staff as appropriate for inclusion in the Library. Many of the materials to be found here were suggested by NSDL users. The collection encompasses portals, sites, and resources in many areas of the discipline, including algebra, applied math, arithmetic, calculus, functions, geometry, measurement, number sense, probability and statistics, and others. Here may be found materials for mathematics educators and learners (early childhood through graduate school), resources intended for the general public, and materials aimed at mathematics research communities.
Details about NSDL selection criteria are provided in the NSDL Collection Development Policy. To recommend an addition or additions to the this collection, please complete NSDL's Recommend a Resource form.
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Albanian Journal of Mathematics
http://www.albmath.org
The Albanian Journal of Mathematics, launched in 2007, is a peer-reviewed journal for the publication of original research articles in pure and applied mathematics. It is intended to reflect the latest developments in mathematics ... Full description
Alice: Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics
http://www.alice.org/
Alice is a robust and engaging programming environment that aims to give programming novices-- particularly members of demographic groups underrepresented in computer science, such as middle-school and high-school girls, community... Full description
America's CryptoKids: Future Codemakers and Codebreakers
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/
This interactive website introduces students to codes, ciphers, and cryptology. Topics include how codes and ciphers are defined, how to make a cipher, how to break a cipher (cryptanalysis), and some historically important code an... Full description
American Mathematical Society Books Online
http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html
The American Mathematical Society's (AMS) Books Online makes available full text of over 30 scholarly monographs published by the AMS, covering a range of subjects including algebra and algebraic geometry, analysis, applications, ... Full description
AP Statistics Curriculum 2007
http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
This collaboratively built digital textbook for probability and statistics education integrates technology and pedagogical techniques, makes use of materials and instructional resources that are freely accessible over the web, and... Full description
Applied Mathematics E-Notes: An International Electronic Journal of Mathematics
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/EMIS/journals/AMEN/index.html
This fully refereed electronic journal publishes short original research articles on interesting and potentially important ideas in applied mathematics, and longer survey articles with referencing materials. The journal's web site... Full description
arXiv.org
http://arxiv.org/
ArXiv.org provides open access to close to 500,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics, statistics, nonlinear sciences, computer science, and quantitative biology. It provides search within subject areas and by author, title, abstrac... Full description
Banking and Finance Review
http://www.bankingandfinancereview.com/ojs/index.php
The Banking and Finance Review (BFR) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed international research journal that provides a publication outlet for theoretical as well as empirical issues in the fields of banking and finance. The Banking and... Full description
BrainPOP Jr.: Math
http://www.brainpopjr.com/math/
Animated features and activities providing mathematics instruction and homework help for younger students (K-3). Each animation is accompanied by quizzes, games, vocabulary, and other activities. Topics include addition and subtra... Full description
BrainPOP Math: Calculations and Computations
http://www.brainpop.com/math/seeall/
This collection of interactive features and animated movies introduces students (grades 3-12) to mathematical calculations and computations. Categories include algebra, data analysis, geometry and measurement, probability, numbers... Full description
Calculus Animations,Graphics and Lecture Notes
http://calculus7.com/
This site provides lectures, animations, graphics, tests for teaching precalculus, calculus, trigonometry and differential equations. Full description
Calculus+ : Cooperative Learning Experiences in a Laboratory Setting
http://www.calculusplus.cuny.edu/
This web site provides students and faculty with access to precalculus, calculus (I, II, and III), linear algebra, and differential equations computer projects. They can be simply viewed and adapted to a suitable Computer Algebra ... Full description
Chaos and Fractals
http://www.science-house.org/student/bw/chaos/index.html
Activities and projects that address the science and mathematics of chaos, fractals, and how they operate in our world. The activities were developed for and used in an afterschool program for high-school students, sponsored by Th... Full description
Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/
This collection consists of digital copies of several hundred copyright-expired monographs and books on mathematics, dating from the early 20th century or before, that were scanned and converted to image files (TIFFs) from deterio... Full description
Dover Publications: Science and Mathematics
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-science-and-mathematics.html
Dover Publications is a publisher of low-priced books, offering both classic and contemporary texts. This web site provides access to information on their selection of books and other printed media on science and mathematics. The ... Full description
Education World Site Reviews: Math and Finance
http://www.education-world.com/awards/past/topics/math.shtml
This is an archive of reviews of online resources in mathematics and finance. The reviews are organized by topic: general math, algebra, calculus and trigonometry, finance, and geometry. Each review includes the date of the review... Full description
Educational Software Components of Tomorrow
http://www.escot.org/
Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT) is a testbed for the integration of innovative technology in mathematics. The project has produced a collection of interactive features for intermediate (middle-school) students,... Full description
EqWorld: World of Mathematical Equations
http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/
This site provides information on solutions to various classes of mathematical equations. There are exact solutions and methods for solving ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, integral equations, and o... Full description
Free Online Textbooks, Lecture Notes, Tutorials, and Videos on Mathematics
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html
This annotated list features links to free online resources in math and physics. The links are organized by subject: general mathematics, abstract algebra, linear algebra, analysis, numerical analysis, calculus, differential equat... Full description
GoodQuestions Project
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~GoodQuestions/
GoodQuestions is a pedagogical strategy designed to improve calculus instruction for higher-level students by adapting two methods developed in physics instruction: ConcepTests (conceptual multiple-choice questions) and Just-in-Ti... Full description
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
http://investigations.terc.edu/
Investigations is a complete K-5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Mass. It is designed to help all children understand the fundamental ideas of number and operations, geometry, data, measurement, and early a... Full description
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Mathematics
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html
This clearinghouse page provides access to selected, categorized, briefly annotated web sites for enhancing the K-12 mathematics curriculum. The links are arranged alphabetically and include interactives, lesson plans, activities,... Full description
Lorenz Attractor -- Butterfly Effect
http://crossgroup.caltech.edu/chaos_new/Lorenz.html
The "Butterfly Effect", or more technically the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", is the essence of chaos. This is illustrated an applet of the Lorenz Attractor. The demonstration shows a graphical representation of th... Full description
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts: Math Resources
http://faculty.lsmsa.edu/BBurkman/Resources/index.htm
Even in the age of hand-held CAS, students still benefit from learning to do mathematics by hand. These downloadable, printable worksheets and online exercises are designed for that situation. Topics include addition of fractions,... Full description
MAA Online: Classroom Capsules and Notes
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/20/
Classroom Capsules and Notes brings together the best of 114 years of the short classroom materials from the MAA print publications. Full description
MAA Online: Reviews
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/
MAA Reviews provices information on mathematics books: what has been published, what is good, what the MAA recommends for library acquisition. Full description
MAA Reviews
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/19/
The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) includes a database of reviewed publications of interest to mathematicians, students, and educators. The database includes review... Full description
Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE)
http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE
Math and Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) is a searchable and browseable online database of over 2500 songs relating to math and science. The songs pertain to a variety of topics and are appropriate for a wi... Full description
Math DEPOT (Database for Experiments and Projects Organized for Teachers)
http://www.math.ilstu.edu/akmanf/newwebsite/
Math DEPOT is a depository, created for the Department of Mathematics at Illinois State University (ISU) but open to all, for projects and problems that can be used in core mathematics and mathematics education courses (Calculus I... Full description
Math Forum@Drexel
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum is an online resource for mathematics education intended for teachers, parents, students, and others interested in math and math education. The site includes a help page with an ask-the-expert feature, a searchable,... Full description
Math Images Project
http://mathforum.org/mathimages/index.php/HomeDraft
This Wiki-based image gallery features imagery related to mathematics, with explanations of the math principles behind the images. Each image is accompanied by information on its creator, source, field of mathematics, a brief expl... Full description
MathDL Open Source Sharable Applet (OSSLET) Collection
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/3/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1032
This collection of open-source, sharable math applets includes interactive components accompanied by at least two curriculum units. The interactive components are written in Java, Macromedia Director (Shockwave), or Macromedia Fla... Full description
Mathematical Imagery
http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/index.php?cat=0
This web site, presented by the American Mathematical Society, is devoted to the visualization of mathematics--origami, computer-generated landscapes, tesselations, fractals, anamorphic art, and more. It presents changing gallerie... Full description
Mathematical Sciences Digital Library Loci: Convergence
http://convergence.mathdl.org/mathDL/46/
This online publication provides resources for teaching mathematics by using the history of the science. The website features a library of articles on the history of mathematics that is searchable by keyword or term and browseable... Full description
Mathematics Awareness Month
http://www.mathaware.org/
Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM), observed in April of each year, is intended to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. Actvities for the observance are organized around a national theme, selected each... Full description
MathNEXUS: Mathematics Portal
http://www.mathnexus.wwu.edu/aboutproject.html
This collection of mathematics resources and project activities, produced by a partnership between Western Washington University, Skagit Valley College, Whatcom Community College, and adjacent school districts, spans K-14 educatio... Full description
NASA Space Science Mathematics: Weekly Math Problems
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/weekly/weekly.html
This page features weekly mathematics problem sets that are designed to teach intermediate and upper-level students about space weather. The downloadable problem sets include one or more math problems to be solved using the inform... Full description
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
This web site features interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction. The manipulatives are organized by grade level and topic: number and operat... Full description
New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive: Mathematics
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/mathematics.html
Archive of the New York Times' daily lesson plans, developed in partnership with the Bank Street College of Education, on mathematics topics. The lesson plans, intended for use with middle-school or high-school students, include l... Full description
Numerical Methods for the STEM Undergraduate
http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/
This site features materials for a course in numerical methods for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These items include textbook notes, slide presentations, videos, simulations, a... Full description
Open Educational Resources Commons: Mathematics and Statistics
http://oercommons.org/browse/general_subject/mathematics-and-statistics
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons is an open network of course materials and other educational resources, for all levels, that are freely available online for the use of educators, students, and self-learners. Materials inc... Full description
Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM)
http://palm.sri.com/
Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM) is an online, standards-based resource bank of mathematics performance assessment tasks, indexed via the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The tasks have been collected... Full description
PlaneMath
http://www.planemath.com/planemathmain.html
This site features mathematics activities for elementary and middle-school students who, due to a physical disability (cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, specific hand/arm conditions, etc.) are unable to use manipulables such as ... Full description
Prentice-Hall Textbook Companion Websites: Mathematics
http://www.prenhall.com/pubguide/esm/math.html
This page provides links to companion web sites for college mathematics textbooks published by Prentice-Hall. The sites feature a variety of resources for students and professors, including study hints, quizzes, activities, supple... Full description
Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Resources Online
http://projecteuclid.org/
Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. It provides access to independent and society journals publishing in these areas. Through the site ... Full description
Science U
http://www.scienceu.com/
Science U features interactive exhibits, animations, and graphics that are intended to explain science and math topics. These are arranged in a series of portals: the geometry center, with resources to explain triangle tilings and... Full description
Scratch
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is a programming language designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st-century learning skills. Scratch makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art--and to share these creat... Full description
SimCalc MathWorlds® Software and Sample Curriculum
http://www.kaputcenter.umassd.edu/products/
SimCalc Projects represent research and development in technology and curriculum dedicated to democratizing access to the mathematics of change and variation, including ideas underlying calculus. This site allows users to download... Full description
Statistics Online Computational Resource
http://socr.stat.ucla.edu/
The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) is a collection of downloadable applets, computational and graphing tools, and instructional materials for use in online data analysis, visualization, and integration. The tools ... Full description
Teaching Center for Investigations in Number, Data, and Space
http://investigations.scottforesman.com/
This Scott Foresman teaching center offers resources for teachers using the "Investigations in Number, Data, and Space" K-5 math curriculum. Tips on introducing the curriculum to families, the evidence for its success, a Teacher H... Full description
Teaching Company: Science and Mathematics Courses
http://www.teach12.com/storex/courses.aspx?t=&sl=&s=910&sbj=Science%20and%20Mathematics&fM...
The Teaching Company offers courses on DVD, audio CD and other formats, taught by selected faculty from leading colleges and universities and crafted particularly for the lifelong learner. Their science and mathematics gateway pro... Full description
Virtual Math Teams Project
http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry/vmt
This research project investigates the design, implementation and collaborative services at the Math Forum digital library. The project uses chat interaction analysis to explore how students solve problems through online discussio... Full description
Wiley InterScience
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
This gateway page provides access to thousands of journals, books, reference works, and other articles of scholarly and scientific research. There are also databases, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library, a collection of da... Full description
WisWeb, from Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
http://www.fi.uu.nl/wisweb/en/
WisWeb is a web site for secondary education (students between 12 and 18) created by the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education. The site provides a selection of applets, software, instructional materials, and... Full description