[The University of Strathclyde]

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Summer School 2012

Timetable: We will prepare a separate timetable for the 2012 Mathematics Summer School.

Overview: Each three hour teaching session will consist of a one hour lecture, a 45 minute tutorial and another one hour lecture, with short breaks in between. During the tutorial, students will tackle exercises, with staff on hand to answer questions. All sessions will take place in Room R345, which is on the third floor of the Royal College building. Attendance records are maintained and returned to the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

A strict requirement is that students must be available to take the exam at the University of Strathclyde on Thursday July 26th at 9:30am.

The lecture notes, exercises and solutions are provided below in pdf format, along with past exam papers and solutions. In order to help the environment, and encourage independent note taking, printed versions are not supplied and students are asked to bring the relevant Exercise sheets to the tutorials.

Sessions 1 and 2 Numbers

Sessions 3 and 4 Algebraic manipulation and inequalities

Sessions 5 and 6 Circular functions (trigonometry)

Sessions 7 and 8 Geometry

Sessions 9 and 10 Calculus

Sessions 11 and 12 Functions and graphs

The examination paper will have a similar format to those of previous years. The following links will give access to pdf files for

We aim to ensure that students have a suitable background for first-year mathematics classes; this requires not only an adequate knowledge of mathematics, but also the ability to learn through attendance at formal lectures and through independent study.

It is important that students take the opportunity to practice creating their own written record of a lecture. Hence, although lecture notes for each section are made available in pdf format, via the appropriate links under the section headings above, we strongly recommend that students actively take notes during lectures.

Some other useful links are

Prof. Des Higham, d.j.higham@strath.ac.uk, organises the Mathematics component of the Summer School and maintains this web page. Administrative support is provided by Irene Spencer, irene.spencer@strath.ac.uk.

For general Summmer School queries, please contact Lynda Scott lynda.scott@strath.ac.uk at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde.

URL for this webpage:

http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.j.higham/summer_school/SumSchool2012.html

Last update March 2012