This site provides users with an open access collection of high-quality math resources under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
Course projects, supplemental resources, assignments for both undergraduate and graduate level math courses, the central textbook for math courses.
Technical Requirements:
Users can access this site using any browser.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
To provide students with high-quality free online resources in various math topics. Those open access math resources include lecture notes, textbooks, class activities, handouts, and courses assignments.
Target Student Population:
Students at colleges and universities who are taking math courses at any college level.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Most of math resources at this site requires basic college algebra, elementary algebra, or pre-calculus, while others may require advanced level math courses.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The resources in this site are well-organized and listed with respect the sub-topic in the “keywords” section on the left-hand side. Most resources in the site have step-by-step problem with summary and explanation. There is a full collection of over 7,000 mathematics textbooks and ancillary materials that are all directly embedded into the OpenStax system. The search system allows one to filter by publication date, author, type, keyword and subject.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Both instructor and student can easily use this site in many math classes as efficient open access resources for lectures and assignments in various math courses at the college or university level. With the combination of textbooks and ancillaries, an instruct can adopt the OpenStax material for the course and students can benefit from a completely free textbook and support materials for their course.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Students and instructors can access the online math resources in this site easily using all the clickable links or using the advanced search tool. Using this tool, students can enter the topic title or author name if they know an author who is popular in a specific area of research, so they can easily access all related resources.
Concerns:
Even in the Advanced Search, the by subject search as has “Mathematics and Statistics”, but no subcategories. For example, is an instructor wanted to search for a calculus textbook, there is no calculus category and searching with the keyword “calculus” does not bring up the OpenStax Calculus textbook that is in the collection.
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