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OER in Mathematics

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Applied Calculus This textbook was created through Connecting the Pipeline: Libraries, OER, and Dual Enrollment from Secondary to Postsecondary, a $1.3 million project funded by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and the Institute of Library and Museum Services. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond by creating materials that can be adopted for dual enrollment environments. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. The cohort-developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana. If you are adopting this textbook, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey.
Applied Data Analysis in Psychology: Exploring Diversity with Statistics contextualizes statistical concepts and tests within current, or recently published, research. Often, novice statistics students have difficulty applying the course concepts beyond the classroom. This publication bridges that gap between classroom and both statistical application and research consumption, both of which are central for the social sciences. The manual meaningfully and purposefully integrates and highlight diversity research. The chosen examples highlight research questions that relate to various topics of diversity (e.g., age, race, gender, income, sexual orientation, national culture, religion). While this might seem like capitalization of current “hot-topic” issues that are on the minds many students, this is not a passing phase in Psychology. All the members of this collaborative project include a focus on diversity in their teaching and research. Further, diversity and inclusion are central components of the mission of the American Psychological Association.
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Armstrong Calculus
The Art of Analysis The primary innovation of this text is a new perspective on teaching the theory of integration. Most introductory analysis courses focus initially on the Riemann integral, with other definitions discussed later (if at all). The paradigm being proposed is that the Riemann integral and the “generalized Riemann integral” should be considered simultaneously, not separately – in the same manner as uniform continuity and continuity. Riemann integrability is simply a special case of integrability, with particular properties that are worth noting. This point of view has implications for the treatment of other topics, particularly continuity and differentiability.
Calculus I Companion A course pack for supplementing Calculus 1 with algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and precalculus topics, including reading material, activities, and practice problems assembled from various OER texts.
College Algebra Welcome to College Algebra, a LOUIS resource. This press book was sponsored by LOUIS to provide an Open Educational Resource from dual-enrollment from Secondary to Post Secondary. LOUIS is a consortium of public and private college and university libraries in the state of Louisiana. This partnership was formed in 1992 by the library deans and directors at these institutions, in order to create a cost-effective collaboration among the institutions for the procurement of library technology and resources. Our community provides cost-effective information resources, services and technology that support the teaching, learning, and research missions of our members’ institutions. We are currently 48 members strong. This text was adapted from Algebra and Trigonometry, an OpenStax resource. This textbook was written to increase student access to high-quality learning materials, maintaining highest standards of academic rigor at little to no cost. You can access this textbook for free in web view or PDF through openstax.org, and for a low cost in print.
A Concise Introduction to Logic
Dalton State College APEX Calculus
Differential Calculus: From Practice to Theory Differential Calculus: From Practice to Theory covers all of the topics in a typical first course in differential calculus. Initially it focuses on using calculus as a problem solving tool (in conjunction with analytic geometry and trigonometry) by exploiting an informal understanding of differentials (infinitesimals).
Exploring Diversity with Statistics: Step-by-step JASP Guides These resources were created to compliment our undergraduate statistics lab manual, Applied Data Analysis in Psychology: Exploring Diversity with Statistics, published by Kendall Hunt publishing company. Like our lab manual, these JASP walk-through guides meaningfully and purposefully integrate and highlight diversity research to teach students how to analyze data in an open-source statistical program. The data sets utilized in these guides are from open-access databases (e.g., Pew Research Center, PLoS One, ICPSR, and more).
Finite Mathematics This book is designed to be used in any Finite Mathematics course, whether College Algebra is a prerequisite or not. There are sections at the end of Chapters 2, 4, and 8 that use technology to solve problems that are solved in other sections in the chapter. As the instructor of the course, you can choose how much technology you’d like to use. The problems worked in Sections 2.5, 4.6, and 8.8 are the same Examples from the other sections of that chapter that can be worked with technology. The technology used in those problems is in the Back Matter the textbook, so there is no need to purchase any additional technology!
Introductory Statistics Introductory Statistics is intended for the one-semester introduction to statistics course for students who are not mathematics or engineering majors. It focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, especially in real world settings, and assumes that students have an understanding of intermediate algebra. In addition to end of section practice and homework sets, examples of each topic are explained step-by-step throughout the text and followed by a Try It problem that is designed as extra practice for students. This book also includes collaborative exercises and statistics labs designed to give students the opportunity to work together and explore key concepts. To support today’s student in understanding technology, this book features TI 83, 83+, 84, or 84+ calculator instructions at strategic points throughout. While the book has been built so that each chapter builds on the previous, it can be rearranged to accommodate any instructor’s particular needs.
IntroStatw/RandomizationSim
Matrix Algebra with Computational Applications All of the OER materials that Dirk has created are provided as Jupyter notebooks, which are open-source tools that integrate multiple resources (websites, word processors, LaTeX, math, and programming) into a digital notebook. The OER were developed specifically for students and instructors working in a flipped classroom model. This means that hands-on problem-solving activities are done during class meetings, with students watching lectures and completing readings and assignments outside of the class. You will find a link to Dirk’s website as a button in the Pressbooks page. And like what Dirk mentioned in his website, if you are an educator and want to adopt his OER along with other instructor resources, please feel free contact him at colbrydi@msu.edu.
MyOpenMath MyOpenMath is designed for mathematics, providing delivery of homework, quizzes, and tests with rich mathematical content. Students can receive immediate feedback on algorithmically generated questions with numerical or algebraic expression answers.
Natural Resources Biometrics
OpenIntro
OpenIntroCollegeAlgebra+Trig
OpenIntroStatistics
OpenTextbookStore
PhET Interactive Simulations Simulations that may be able to substitute for some lab work. Allows for searching on undergraduate, undergraduate advanced, and graduate level simulations. Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Mathematics, Physics
Statistics Simulations Project
Statistics Through an Equity Lens This Open Educational Resource (OER) carries a significant responsibility by presenting statistics through an equity lens. The metaphor of a lens is used intentionally–as the glasses one wears can have a profound effect on what one sees. The book encourages further inspection of the ways in which data is collected, interpreted, and analyzed on a variety of social justice issues, such as health disparities, hunger and food insecurity, homelessness, behavioral health (mental health and substance use), and incarceration of males of color. It also attempts to reveal how the misuse of data can reinforce inequities, for example, by stigmatizing people and labeling neighborhoods as high poverty, violent, and having poor educational opportunities.
Trigonometry This textbook was created through Connecting the Pipeline: Libraries, OER, and Dual Enrollment from Secondary to Postsecondary, a $1.3 million project funded by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and the Institute of Library and Museum Services. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond by creating materials that can be adopted for dual enrollment environments. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. The cohort-developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others. This includes a corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana. If you are adopting this textbook, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey.
WeBWork WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.