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Open Educational Resources: MATHEMATICS

How to find, adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources.

OERs

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

This guide includes collections of OERs and other freely available online educational resources. Quality, accessibility, and copyright of the materials may vary.

Try the California State University: Course Materials Finder Tool  - Enter a book's ISBN to search for freely available related materials related to the book.

Featured Resources: Mathematics OER

Finding OERs by Discipline

Open Textbooks

ActiveCalculus.org

  • “Active Prelude to Calculus, Active Calculus, and Active Calculus Multivariable are free, open-source texts designed for a more active learning experience for students”

American Institute of Mathematics

  • open textbooks by course title; All the books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board

BC Open Collection: Math & Statistics

  • open textbooks from British Columbia/BCcampus

Bookboon: Statistics and Mathematics

  • free eBooks and textbooks, although registration may be required; the books cannot be altered, but can be shared, or embedded in non-commercial ways

Directory of Open Access Books: Mathematics and Statistics

  • directory of open access books from various sources

GALILEO Mathematics Open Textbooks

  • from the University System of Georgia

#GoOpenVA: Mathematics Textbooks

  • from the Virginia Department of Education

IntechOpen: Mathematics

  • peer reviewed open access textbooks

LibreTexts

  • open access courses, textbooks, homework exercises and ancillary materials on Algebra, Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Calculus, and other mathematical topics from UCDavis

Mathematics Commons: Open Textbooks

  • open textbooks from Grand Valley State University

MERLOT Open Access Math Textbooks

  • online textbooks offered by its author(s) with Creative Commons, public domain, or other public use license agreement 

Milne Open Textbooks: Mathematics

  • SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty

MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks: Mathematics

  • Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT

The National Academies Press (NAP): Math and Statistics

  • the books are available as PDFs that can be downloaded for free

OAPEN: Mathematic

  • a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform 

 OASIS: Math Textbooks

  • collection from115 different sources curated by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library

OER Commons: Mathematics

  • open textbooks collection

OpenBook Publishers: Series in Mathematics

  • leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, and more

Open Intro: Math Textbooks

  • open textbooks (Algebra, Trig, Calculus) from an independent, nonprofit publisher

Open Research Library: Mathematics

  • peer-reviewed Open Access books on the Open Research Library platform

OpenStax: Mathematics

  • Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free textbooks from OpenStax

OpenTextbook Library: Mathematics

  • Textbooks in pure and applied mathematics and statistics curated by the University of Minnesota

Pressbooks Directory [BETA]: Mathematics

  • a curated collection of open books published across 145 Pressbooks networks

PreText: Mathematics

  • An authoring and publishing system for authors of textbooks, research articles, and monographs, especially in STEM disciplines

Project Gutenberg: Books in Mathematics

  • a library of over 75,000 free eBooks

Saylor Academy Open Textbooks: Science & Mathematics

  • textbooks are reproduced without attribution to the authors or original publisher, as requested by the licensor, and are available under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license

SCHOLARWorks@GVSU: Mathematics

  • Grand Valley State University open textbooks

Teaching Commons: Physical Sciences & Mathematics

  • OER textbooks from leading colleges & universities

University of South Florida Scholar Commons

  • open access textbooks in mathematics

 

Open Courseware

Open Courseware

AMS Open Math Notes

  • "A repository of freely downloadable mathematical works hosted by the American Mathematical Society."

Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)

  • a portal of educational resources and services; AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library

BC Open Collection: Math & Stats

  • textbooks, course packs, and other course materials

MERLOT Materials: Mathematics Online Course Modules

  • a curated collection of free and open online teaching materials

MIT Open Courseware (OCW):Mathematics

  • includes courses, materials & teaching resources (lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more)

NSDL Math Resources

  • lesson plans, lectures, activities, assessments, & more from National Science Digital Library

Open Course library: Mathematics

  • collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments from Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges

Open Learning Initiative Free Courses: Mathematics and Logic (Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Transforming higher education through the science of learning

SUNY OER Ready-to-Adopt Courses: Mathematics

  • SUNY OER Ready-to-Adopt Courses

Teaching Commons: Physical Sciences & Mathematics

  • OER course materials from leading colleges & universities

General Mathematics-related OER

General Mathematics-related OER

Applied Math and Science Education Repository

  • a portal of free educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges

OER Commons: Mathematics

  • a public digital library of open educational resources, including textbooks, lesson plans, courses, activities & more

MERLOT: Mathematics Community Portal

  • “a wealth of resources that will supplement your mathematics teaching and learning”

MERLOT: Statistics Community Portal

  • “a wealth of resources that will supplement your mathematics teaching and learning”

Pressbooks OER: Math

  • the BCcampus Open Education OER includes a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses

Teaching Commons: Mathematics OER

  • open educational resources from leading colleges and universities; includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, and more

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

             *many of the simulations and videos are view/use only (i.e. not adaptable)

Academic Earth: Free Online Lectures and Courses for Mathematics

  • complete mathematics and statistics courses presented as a series of lecture videos and worked problems

GeoGebra for Teaching and Learning Math

  • free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more

#GoOpenVA: Mathematics

  • interactive activities in mathematics from the Virginia Department of Education

Grasple

  • curated interactive exercises for teaching math. Starting with the basics, up to vector calculus and linear algebra.

Math Insight

  • "a collection of pages and applets designed to shed light on concepts underlying a few topics in mathematics. The focus is on qualitative description rather than getting all technical details precise.”

MIT OpenCourseWare Audio/Video Lectures: Mathematics

  • Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT

MIT Mathlets

  • "The MIT Mathlets constitute a suite of carefully designed and highly interactive Javascript applets designed to enhance selected university level STEM classes." 

MyOpenMath

  • an online course management and assessment system for mathematics and other quantitative fields. “MyOpenMath’s focus is providing rich algorithmically generated assessment to support the use of free, open textbooks like the ones listed on OpenTextBookStore.com”

Online Interactive Graphing Application (Desmos)

  • a free math engine that can graph any equation, including derivatives and Fourier series. Interactive sliders enable users to demonstrate function transformations

PhET Interactive Simulations: Math (University of Colorado Boulder)

  • free interactive math simulations in an intuitive, game-like environment

SageMath

  • "SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces

Shodor Foundation MASTER Tools

  • "They are designed to be interactive tools and simulation environments that enable and encourage exploration and discovery through observation, conjecture, and modeling activities."

Shodor Interactive

  • "The goals of Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics."

Virtual Math Lab (West Texas A&M University)

  • interactive online tutorials in College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Beginning Algebra, Math for the Sciences

PreTexXt (formerly MathBook XML)

  • An authoring and publishing system for authors of textbooks, research articles, and monographs, especially in STEM disciplines.

WebWork Open Problem Library

  • A library of WeBWorK problems contributed by the OpenWeBWorK community

Wolfram Demonstrations

  • Interactive demonstrations under a Creative Commons license