Welcome to the Writing Math Research Papers Website!

This site contains several resources that will aid students and teachers involved in math research, and students and teachers who would like to get a research program started in their school. Check out these resources:

1. A reprint of the Introduction to Writing Math Research Papers. This provides a program overview for instructors and administrators thinking of instituting a math research program in their school.
2. Chapter 17 of the 1999 NCTM Yearbook Developing Mathematical Reasoning in Grades K-12. This chapter, “Mathematics Journal Articles: Anchors for the Guided Development and Practice of Reasoning Skills,” by Robert Gerver, shows how using journal articles facilitates the learning of reasoning skills.
3. Chapter 23 of NCTM’s 1999 publication Developing Mathematically Promising Students. This chapter, “Instituting a Mathematics Research Program for Your School’s Promising Math Enthusiasts,” by Robert Gerver, provides nuts-and-bolts guidance for starting a math research program.
4. Lesson Plan 8, “Investigations in Math Research,” by Robert Gerver, from the 1997 publication Chevron Best Practices in Education Winning Lesson Plans. This curriculum project highlights the major features of the math research program at North Shore High School in Glen Head, New York.
5. Some Selected Journal Articles is a list of dozens of suggested articles that students have used to base their research on. Contact information for the publishers is included in Writing Math Research Papers Second Edition.
6. An eleventh grade paper, “A Derivation of Formulas for the Area of Irregular Quadrilaterals,” by Victoria LaRosa, is presented in its entirety.
7. An eleventh grade paper, “Algebraic and Geometric Derivations of Heron’s Formula for the Area of a Triangle,” by John Kearney, is presented in its entirety.
8. A tenth grade paper, “A Derivation of Formulas Used to Generate Pythagorean Triples,” by Amanda Magli, is presented in its entirety.