Math Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have questions with research, require library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Amanda Pape
Special Services - Office B05B
phone: 254-968-9251
email: pape@tarleton.edu
Help is available by using the Ask a Librarian page, email at reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or by coming into the library.
Selected Resources for Math Teachers
- Tarleton Educators for the Advancement of Mathematics (T.E.A.M.)
- Teaching mathematics [electronic resource]: a handbook for primary and secondary school teachers
- Fundamental constructs in mathematics education [electronic resource]
- Help! For elementary school substitutes and beginning teachers. LB1576.M8 General Stacks
- A Mathematics laboratory handbook for secondary schools. QA40.K78X General Stacks
- The Giant encyclopedia of math activities for children 3 to 6. QA95 .G469 2007 Curriculum Collection
Selected Handbooks and Manuals for Mathematics
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- Research companion to principles and standards for school mathematics QA13. R462 2003
- Handbook of applied mathematics for engineers and scientists. TA332.K87 1991 General Stacks
- Standard handbook of engineering calculations. TA151.H52 1985 General Stacks
- Encyclopedia of mathematics. QA5 .T34 2005 Reference
- CRC concise encyclopedia of mathematics. QA5 .W45 1999 Reference
- Princeton companion to mathematics. 2010. [electronic resource]
- A Dictionary of quotations in mathematics. QA99 .D53 2002 Reference
Article and Index Databases
Academic Search Complete – Designed for academic institutions, a comprehensive, often full-text database which includes journals in mathematics.
Computer Source -- latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications, including journals in mathematics.
Computers and Applied Science Complete -- Contains abstracts and citations for articles mathematics. Over 485 scientific and technical publications are covered in this database.
Dissertations and Theses - Authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, including full-test of over 100,000 dissertations published from 1997 forward, as well as, citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward with 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.
IEEE Xplore - includes: IEEE journals, transactions, letters, and magazines from 1988 with select content back to 1952, IEEE conference proceedings from 1988 with select content back to 1953, IEEE standards from 1988, IEEE journals, letters, and magazines from 1988, and IEEE conference proceedings from 1988.
JSTOR - The scholarly journal archive covers Anthropology, Ecology & Botany, Business, Economics, Finance, General Science, History, Literature and Languages, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
MathSciNet - A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.
SciVerse - Important database that contains the full-text of more than 1,000 journals including mathematics journals.
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) - Leading source of information in applied mathematics and computational science.
SpringerLINK - A leading database for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) books and journals and includes mathematics.
Web of Knowledge - An index to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. Indexes included are: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Wiley InterScience - Full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical and medical journals and books.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by Category (Subject).
- ELECTRONIC JOURNALS by title.
- METALIB: search multiple subject specific databases at once
- INTERNET LINKS: including Professional Societies and Organizations, Jobs, Employment, and Internships
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