Sources for Math History and Teaching
- LIBRARY CATALOG: try these Library of Congress Subject Headings to locate books and media:
- algebra – history
- arithmetic – study and teaching
- calculus -- history
- creative thinking
- games
- geometry – study and teaching
- mathematical ability
- mathematical recreations
- mathematicians – biography
- mathematics, ancient
- mathematics – history
- mathematics – juvenile literature
- mathematics – philosophy
- mathematics – popular works
- mathematics – study and teaching
- mathematics teachers – training of
- mathematics – textbooks
- number concept
- problem solving
- women in mathematics
- women mathematicians
- Selected recent book titles with their call number locations:
- Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics QA 21 .S54 2007
- Contemporary Perspectives on Mathematics in Early Childhood Education QA 135.6 .C659 2008
- Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness QA 93 .T38 2008
- How Math Explains the World QA 8.4 .S72 2008
- Mathematics in Ancient Iraq QA 22 .R629 2008
- Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities QA 95 .S7257 2009
- Sink or Float? Thought Problems in Math and Physics QA 43 .K46 2008
- Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800-2000 QA 71 .K46 2008
- Why Is Math So Hard for Some Children? QA 11.2 .W525 2007
- Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Handbooks
- A To Z of Women in Science and Math Ref. Q 141 Y675 1999
- Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science Ref. QA 27.5 .C45 1996
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education Ref. QA 11 .E665 2001
- Facts on File Calculus Handbook Ref. QA 303.2 .M36 2003
- Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Series) TMC Ref. QA 135.5…
- Mathematical Universe Ref. QA 21 .D785 1994
- Notable Mathematicians Ref. QA 28 .N66 1998
- Women of Mathematics: Biobibliographic Sourcebook Ref. QA 28 .W66 1987
- Abstracting/Indexing databases to locate journal articles by topic, i.e., “Find Articles”:
- Academic Search Complete
- Education Full Text
- Education Research Complete
- JSTOR
- MathScNet
- Professisonal Development Collection
- ScienceDirect
- Wilson OmniFile
- Selected current Math journals, many in full-text electronic or print format; check “Periodical Holdings” via 360 Link:
- BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Academic Search Complete)
- Furman University Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics (Freely Accessible Journals)
- Journal of Mathematical Behavior (Science Direct)
- Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education (Education Research Complete)
- Mathematics and Computer Education, Mathematics in School (Education Full Text)
- Mathematics Magazine, Mathematics Teacher, Mathematics Teacher Education & Development (Freely Accessible Science Journals)
- Mathematics Teaching (Education Full Text)
- Mathematics Teaching in the Middle Schools
- Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal (Freely Accessible Science Journals), School Science and Mathematics
- Selected Internet/World Wide web Sites:
- www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/alpha.htm Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
- www.gap-system.org/~history MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (biographies too)
- http://dir.yahoo.com/science/mathematics/history/ Yahoo links
Prepared by Ellen Paterson/Health Bibliographer
Updated: 9/25/2004, 7/24/2009