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Mathematics

Calc 1000

Professor: Various Professors

Description:  Review of limits and derivatives of exponential, logarithmic and rational functions. Topics include trigonometric functions and their inverses, the derivatives of the trig functions and their inverses, L'Hospital's rules, the definite integral, fundamental theorem of Calculus, simple substitution., applications including areas of regions and volumes of solids of revolution. 

Textbook Readings Required: Textbook helps with unclear concepts, but is mainly helpful for the word problems - many exam questions will have a similar format

Past Exams/notes: Click here

Our Feedback:​​

  • Some find it terribly difficult, some find it a breeze depending how in-depth your high school went into the course. It is a good idea to go through the syllabus and look for areas that your high school curriculum did not cover

    • ex. some provinces/schools do not go into limits (which is the first unit of the course)​

  • The first half of the course is generally well accepted, so be sure to study well for the midterm as it is easier than the final

  • Post-midterm material picks up fast - do not fall behind in integration and make sure to ask questions/do extra textbook problems using the different methods of integration

  • Do the past exams - all of them if you have the time as they will be very similar to your exams.

Calc 1301

Professor: Various Professors

Description: Integration by parts, partial fractions, integral tables, geometric series, harmonic series, Taylor series with applications, arc length of parametric and polar curves, first order linear and separable differential equations with applications.

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Applied Math 1201

Professor: Geoff Wild

Description:  Applications of integration, integration using mathematical software packages. Scaling and allometry. Basic probability theory. Fundamentals of linear algebra: vectors, matrices, matrix algebra. Difference and differential equations. Each topic will be illustrated by examples and applications from the biological sciences, such as population growth, predator-prey dynamics, age-structured populations. 

Past exams: There doesn’t seem to be past exams. Instead, do the practice problems given by the professor and make sure you understand the reasoning behind each step/solution.

Our Feedback:​​

  • Keep up with the homework! Sometimes lessons take a while to understand so it’s best to review your notes after each class to make sure you actually understand everything.

Math 1228

Professor: Various Professors

Description:  Permutations and combinations; probability theory. 

Textbook Readings Required: No

Our Feedback:​

  • 1228 is like high school data management except a bit harder

  • Easy if you try and understand rather than memorize the material.

  • Math 1228 tends to be easy for students that like the data management probability kind of math.

  • Students seem to enjoy the questions in the prep workbooks

Math 1229

Professor: Various Professors

Description: Matrix algebra including vectors and matrices, linear equations, determinants.

Textbook Readings Required: No

Our Feedback:​

  • I don't have grade 11 or 12 math and I did very well in this course.

  •  It was probably the best course I've taken at Uni so far in terms of the difficulty level.

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