LibGuides: OER By Discipline: Mathematics

OER Collections

JSTOR Open Content — Mathematics
Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers. Focus on high-quality content, ease of use, and digital preservation.
MERLOT — Mathematics and Statistics
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
OER Commons — Mathematics
OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and other course material for the study of mathematics.

Textbooks

"A Friendly Introduction to Mathematical Logic" — SUNY/Milne
"A Spiral Workbook for Discrete Mathematics" — SUNY/Milne
"Boundless Algebra" — Lumen
Educational content originally curated by Boundless, imported to the Lumen Platform. Except where otherwise noted, all material in Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
"Boundless Calculus" — Lumen
Educational content originally curated by Boundless, imported to the Lumen Platform. Except where otherwise noted, all material in Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
"Boundless Statistics" — Lumen
Educational content originally curated by Boundless, imported to the Lumen Platform. Except where otherwise noted, all material in Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks
All books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.
BCcampus OpenEd Textbooks — Math/Stats
Open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection come in multiple formats.
IntechOpen Textbooks — Mathematics
The world's leading publisher of Open Access books built by scientists, for scientists.
LibreTexts — Mathematics Bookshelves
The Bookshelves area in this LibreTexts Library holds texts that are curated by the LibreTexts Development team and can be used either directly or as content for building customized remixes.
MERLOT — Mathematics and Statistics Textbooks
National Academies Press — Math and Statistics
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes authoritative reports issued by The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
OER Commons — Mathematics Textbooks
These textbooks are either in use at academic institutions or have been produced by subject matter experts affiliated with academic or professional institutions.
Open Research Library — Mathematics Textbooks
The ORL is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform.
OpenStax — Math Textbooks
We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
Open Textbook Library — Mathematics Textbooks
These textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
Project Gutenberg — Books in Mathematics
Saylor Academy — Mathematics Textbooks
Texts include: Linear Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Introductory Statistics, Mathematical Analysis, Topics in Applied Mathematics, etc.
Stitz & Zeager Open Source Mathematics
Textbooks for Precalculus, College Algebra, and College Trigonometry.
Textbook Equity — Math Textbooks
Free digital college level textbooks with Creative Commons Licenses, royalty-free, academically reviewed, low-cost prints.

Open Courses

"Arithmetic for College Students" — Lumen
This course is a review of arithmetic including whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, rates, proportions, geometry, measurement, basic statistics, and signed numbers.
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Includes outcome-aligned OER, LMS Integration, accessibility, images, self-checks, Online Homework Manager (OHM), etc.
"College Algebra: Lumen Learning"
This course provides an interactive exploration of College Algebra topics, laying a firm groundwork for success in subsequent math courses.
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With Desmos interactives as well as embedded algorithmically generated practice, the text is a great resource for active learning in and out of the classroom.
"College Algebra: Stitz & Zeager" — Lumen
Based on the open textbook, College Algebra, by Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager, this College Algebra course includes complete text, videos, practice problems, powerpoint slides, paper quizzes, and online assessments.
"Concepts in Statistics" — Lumen
Using highly interactive learning design, this Concepts in Statistics course provides students with a strong understanding of fundamental principles that guide the study of statistical inference.
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Includes outcome-aligned OER, LMS Integration, accessibility, images, videos, self-checks, Waymaker Courseware tools, etc.
"Math for Liberal Arts: Lumen Learning"
This modular survey course focuses on developing math literacy and problem solving skills.
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It explores topics such as counting systems, problem solving, measurement, graph theory, fractals, set theory and logic, voting theory, growth models, finance, data collection, statistics, and probability.
"Statistics: OpenStax" — Lumen
Based on the OpenStax textbook Introductory Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, this statistics course includes editable e-text, videos, powerpoint slides, and online assessments.
LibreTexts — Mathematics Courses
Course shells are customized to address the needs of faculty and their students and typically contains text remixes that students and faculty can directly access for their class activities.
Mathematics Illuminated
Video course. Explore mathematical concepts as tools for understanding real-world phenomena.
MERLOT — Mathematics and Statistics Online Courses
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
MIT OpenCourseWare — Mathematics Courses
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available on the Web, free of charge.
Open Michigan — Mathematics Courses
As part of a large public research university, the Mathematics Department performs many different roles in fulfilling its mission to discover and communicate mathematical knowledge.
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Mathematics is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), the heart of the University of Michigan, and an extraordinary center of creativity, inquiry, and discovery. Combining the best of a research institution and a liberal arts college, students and faculty in more than 70 departments and programs explore the world's biggest questions together.
Saylor Academy — Mathematics Courses
Courses in calculus, algebra, mathematical reasoning, statistics, etc.
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Excluding course final exams, content authored by Saylor Academy is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free to share and adapt with attribution.
Saylor Legacy Courses
These courses are inactive but available as resources. Listed in ABC order by department code.

Visual Resources

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
This video series shows students the relevance of statistics in real-world settings.
figshare
Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable, and discoverable manner. Users can upload any file format and tag their content with CC licenses.
Mathematics Illuminated
Video course. Explore mathematical concepts as tools for understanding real-world phenomena.
Mathispower4u
Closed-captioned, high quality videos for math organized by course and topic.
MIT OpenCourseWare — YouTube
Open course videos from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s YouTube channel.
TED Talks — Math
Wikipedia Featured Pictures: Mathematics

Supplementary Materials

GeoGebra Math Apps
Free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more.
Mathematics Subject Websites
From the "Subject Websites" directory LibGuide. Some website materials may be copyrighted, but all are available for students to access.
Math Simulations — PhET
Interactive simulations from University of Colorado Boulder.
MyOpenMath
Online interactive math homework for students to use on their own and faculty to use with classes
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines: Mathematics
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.
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Includes 4 units on mathematics in sequential order; linked is the first one.
Statcato
Statcato is a free Java software application developed for elementary statistical computations. Its features are tailored for introductory statistics students and instructors.
That Quiz
Math self-quizzes for all levels.
Wolfram Alpha: Mathematics
Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.
Wolfram MathWorld
An online mathematics reference work, created and largely written by Eric W. Weisstein.