New York City
A link to the city Dept. of Mathematics with resources and support for the development and implementation of mathematics.New York State
A link to state standards & resources for teaching mathematics.National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Web site of the professional teacher organization with free downloads of the Curriculum Focal Points (Grades PreK-8), the most important mathematical topics for each grade level.
Also available in hard copy in the main floor Reference Collection:
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Ref. QA 13 .P735)Kraus Curriculum Development Library
A searchable online collection of curricula from all over the country. MOST (1983-2000) are available in microfiche format, but, with the 20th edition (2001), many curricula are available full text online. (SOME earlier materials are being made available full text.) If the curriculum is not available full text, the document number of the fiche is given and can be located in the Education Curriculum Center (ECC) on the first floor of Rosenthal Library (Room 109B). Fiche reader/printers in the adjoining Media Center are available to take notes and photocopy.
Sets of teacher’s annotated editions of textbooks are in a collection just beyond the 4th floor Juvenile Collection. They are arranged by curricular topic, assigned a number, and then alphabetical by publisher. Each publisher set is then arranged in grade order. The most relevant textbook ranges for mathematics are
70 - Arithmetic (Mathematics, Elementary)
71 - Algebra
72 - Geometry
73 - Trigonometry
74 - CalculusAnother useful set of supplementary books is the Investigations in Number, Data, & Space developed at TERC (Technical Education Research Centers). This set is in the regular 4th floor circulating collection under the call number LT 4400.
Some years are available full text online as indicated. The most recent hard copies can be located by call number on the library 1st floor. Use the ERIC database to determine which journal has articles on the desired topic.
Teaching children mathematics
Queens - Periodicals Level 1 - QA135 .A61
from 01/01/1996 to 12/01/2001 in Education Full Text
from 05/01/1997 to 10/01/2003 in ProQuest Research LibraryMathematics teaching in the middle school
Queens - Periodicals Level 1 - QA13 .M37
from 09/01/1997 to 11/01/2001 in Education Full Text
from 05/01/1998 to 10/01/2003 in ProQuest Research LibraryMathematics teacher
Queens - Periodicals Level 1 - QA1 .N28
from 01/01/1992 to 10/01/2003 in ProQuest Research Library
from 01/01/1996 to 11/01/2001 in Education Full Text
Journal for research in mathematics education
Queens - Periodicals Level 1 - QA11 .A1 J68
from 01/01/1970 to 11/30/2001 in JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV Collection
from 01/01/1996 to 11/01/2001 in Education Full Text
from 03/01/1997 to 07/01/2003 in ProQuest Research Library
Educational studies in mathematics
from 05/01/1968 to 2003 in JSTOR Arts and Sciences IV Collection
from 01/01/1997 to 1 year ago in Academic Search Premier
from 01/01/1997 to present in SpringerLink ContemporaryFor the learning of mathematics: an international journal of mathematics education
Queens - Periodicals Level 1 - QA11 .A1 F67Journal of mathematical behavior
from 1997 to present in ScienceDirect JournalsInternational journal for mathematics teaching and learning
from 2000 to present in Directory of Open Access JournalsInternational journal for technology in mathematics education
from 01/01/2004 to present in ProQuest Research LibraryInternational journal of science and mathematics education
from 03/15/2003 to present in SpringerLink Contemporary
Mathematics teaching
from 09/01/2001 to present in Education Full Text
from 12/01/2002 to present in Academic Search Premier
from 12/01/2004 to present in ProQuest Research LibraryYearbook - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Queens - Stacks Level 5 - QA1 .N3 (Hard copies may be checked out.)
from 01/01/1996 to 06/01/2001 in Education Full Text
Links to these are on the Education Curriculum Center page.
http://qcpages.qc.edu/Library/info/ecc.html#lesson
Math manipulatives (Cuisenaire Rods, Geoboards, etc.) may be borrowed from the 1st floor Education Curriculum Center. They can be browsed in a Command Search with CUNY+ the online catalog.
(wcl=eta) and mathematics
The Wonderful World of Mathematics: a Critically Annotated List of Children's Books in Mathematics, 2nd ed. (Ref Z6651. W66 1998)
Use CUNY+ (http://qcpages.qc.edu/Library) to check if the library owns the books suggested in the guides.