Resources and materials

There are many, many more resources available to learn maths than are listed here. These are selected, quality, free materials I'm actually using to complete my curriculum. I sometimes choose to make author/institution donations, but I only use materials where that's not necessary.

Where I use textbooks, worksheets, etc., I use only those with a Commons/Open license so that I can attach the whole book to these pages for you, with proper attribution.

Resources I've used

I've tried these. They are helpful, high quality and free.

Educational websites & courses

Textbooks and handouts

The definition of a textbook gets a little loose here. A well organised set of web pages differs little from a PDF textbook. I'm not going to differentiate too much. I call it a textbook if I can one-click download the whole to my computer, read it offline, and attach it to these pages for you to do the same.

Learning techniques

How_To_Study_Math.pdf (Paul's Notes by Prof. Paul Dawkins) Common_Math_Errors.pdf (Paul's Notes by Prof. Paul Dawkins)

Resources I'll test

I'll try to learn a topic from each of these, and add them above if they prove helpful, high quality and free.

Educational websites & courses to test

  • MIT Open Courseware Note most courses require reading from non-free textbooks.
  • CK12 As well as these study guides and lessons this site provides free textbooks, see below.
  • Paul Dawkins at Lamar University, TX These lecture and course notes start with algebra review in prep for calculus, then calculus and differential equations.

Textbooks and handouts to test

Learning techniques

  • tbd

Social to test

Multi-provider course collections to test

These have courses from several providers. The free courses from quality providers will need finding. Some courses have both free and paid options, the latter giving a certificate or similar.

Other resources to test

  • Oxford University Maths If I can follow them, the pre-requisites and lecture notes for all Oxford mathematics courses are here. Go to a course site for the lecture notes.

Rejected resources

  • Open Culture is a big list of links. Many point to other resources used above, others are dead links.
  • Internet Archive, archive.org These books may be out of copyright, but they'r enot really Commons/Open licensed and I can't attach them to this site. Some books here are "loaned" library-style for an hour at a time.
  • YouTube probably has great lesson playlists, but it would be like sifting muck for opals.
  • https://www.classcentral.com/ just collates courses mainly from Coursera