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Mathematics & Math Education

Articles

To locate articles on mathematics and math education, it is most effective to go to the special databases devoted to those subjects. Articles drawn from these databases are not considered "internet sources" because they have been published in other venues as well.

Science Resource Center - More than 200 magazines and academic journals, as well as topic overviews, experiments, biographies of mathematicians, illustrations and web links are gathered together in this database.

EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier and others — The EBSCOHost collection includes several different databases that may be of use, depending on the precise nature of your research. Academic Search Premier is the principal database and will provide solid research on almost all topics including mathematics. If you are working on math with an education angle, try the Professional Development Collection (also ERIC, but it has less full text).

Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP — This general purpose database includes sources suitable to both mathematics and math education research topics. What makes Expanded Academic ASAP different is the option to select a "subject" search. When you put in a keyword (use only one word or a two-word phrase for best results), it locates your result in a list of topics. You can then narrow that topic further. This strategy is most useful when you are developing your ideas rather than when you have a narrowly focused idea in mind.

Dictionaries, Background and Special Information Sources

Other electronic resources available to students are:

Oxford Reference Online — offers users access to more than 120 titles in Oxford University Press's Companion collection and subject dictionaries, including:

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics

AccessScience — is the McGraw-Hill online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, an excellent first stop for scientific and technical research.

Books and Subject Headings

In order to search for books or videos in the library, use the online catalog:

DACC Library Catalog

You can also jump directly into searching the catalog of the entire system of libraries of which DACC is part, if you know that the item you want is not available from the DACC library:

I-Share Catalog - You can also link to I-Share from within the DACC catalog.

The library has several books that will be of use to students in Psychology and Child Development.

The general Call Number Ranges of interest are:

510 Mathematics
511 General principles
512 Algebra & number theory
513 Arithmetic
514 Topology
515 Analysis
516 Geometry
519 Probabilities & applied mathematics

372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
374 Adult education
375 Curriculums

Some of the more significant titles include:

Internet Sites

The following web sites can generally be relied upon to provide high quality, current information.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive — Excellent collection of biographies of mathematicians gathered at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of St. Andrews University in Scotland.

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography — an onlnine encyclopedia of biographies of scientists, including a number of important mathematicians.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators at DiscoverySchool.com — offers lots of ideas and lesson plans for mathematics targeted at subjects from K-12.

MathCats — offers a lot of wonderful tools and help with math for kids and adults working on basic math skills. The site uses games and creative ideas to promote math learning. An entire section offers information to educators and parents.

Career Portfolio Basics — lots of information about how to develop a good career portfolio: what to include, how to put one together, links to examples

Internet Mathematics Library — The student forum is the center of this wealth of math information. It offers an archive of math problems, tips on how to teach particular concepts broken out by grade level, and a section on math history. Another section of the site is dedicated to teachers and includes lesson plans, projects and activities to teach particular concepts.

Citing Your Sources

Need to cite your sources? For information on citing your sources according to proper APA style, see the campus citation guide.

You can also use the citation builder, Noodletools. You will need to create a personal account to use Noodletools. You will also need to have all the information about each of your sources available in order to use it.

If you have questions about this or any other library web page, contact a librarian at 443-8739 or by means of the convenient web form.

Created Jan. 30, 2007
Revised Feb. 7, 2008