JSTOR All-Stars: The College Mathematics Journal

March 24, 2011

The JSTOR database is an archive of important scholarly journals, offering researchers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages. It now includes articles from The College Mathematics Journal, from 1984 to the present, and articles from its predecessor The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal (1970-1983).

The most frequently accessed CMJ articles over the last three years are:

  1. "Learning Mathematics Through Writing: Some Guidelines" by J.J. Price. November 1989, 20:393-401.
  2. "Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio" by George Markowsky. January 1992, 23:2-19.
  3. "Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College" by Uri Treisman. November 1992, 23:362-372.
  4. "Why n - 1 in the Formula for the Sample Standard Deviation?" by Stephen A. Book. November 1979, 10:330-333.
  5. “The Golden Ratio: A Contrary Viewpoint” by Clement Falbo. March 2005, 36:123-134.
  6. "The Derivative of Arctan x" by Norman Schaumberger. September 1982, 13:274-276.
  7. "Pascal's Triangle" by Karl J. Smith. Winter 1973, 4:1-13.
  8. "The History of the Calculus" by Carl B. Boyer. Spring 1970, 1:60-86.
  9. "Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems" by Dennis Luciano and Gordon Prichett. January 1987, 18:2-17.
  10. “What Is the Biggest Rectangle You Can Put inside a Given Triangle?” by Lester H. Lange. May 1993, 24:237-240.
  11. “Was Calculus Invented in India” by David Bressoud. January 2002, 33:2-13.
  12. "Math Anxiety: Some Suggested Causes and Cures: Part 1" by Peter Hilton. June 1980, 11:174-188.
  13. "What's an Assignment Like You Doing in a Course Like This? Writing to Learn Mathematics" by George D. Gopen and David A. Smith. January 1990, 21:2-19.
  14. "Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics" by V. Frederick Rickey. November 1987, 18:362-389.
  15. "Computing Jordan Canonical Forms" by Patrick Costello. May 1994, 25:231-234.
  16. “An Ellipse Problem Beyond the Reach of Calculus” by Ivan Niven. June 1979, 10:162-168.
  17. “Complementary Coffee Cups” by Thomas Banchoff. May 2006, 37:170-175.
  18. “Baseball’s All-Stars: Birthplace and Distribution” by Paul M. Sommers. January 2003, 34:24-30.
  19. "The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot" by Anthony Barcellos. March 1984, 15:98-114.
  20. “Take a Walk on the Boardwalk” by Stephen D. Abbott and Matt Richey. May 1997, 28:162-171.

Access to the JSTOR archive is provided by many college, university, and other libraries. To find out if your library is a JSTOR participant, use the following link: http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/participants.

If your library is not on one of the above lists, look for a nearby library that does have JSTOR access and is open to the public. Members of the MAA have the option of purchasing an individual subscription to JSTOR that gives them access to the archives of The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine, The College Mathematics Journal, and Math Horizons.