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Math Readiness Brochure
Get ahead by getting spending two weeks this summer getting comfortable with the mathematics used in first-year-university science, engineering, business and mathematics.
Math readiness can help you…
- If it’s been a while since your last Grade 12 math class
- If your Grade 12 math marks are lower than 80%
- If you think you would benefit from a refresher course in the math used in university-level science, engineering mathematics, and the Edwards School of Business courses.
The Math Readiness course is a non-credit math review, for students who wish to refresh their high school math skills. The course consists of approximately 22 lessons on the following topics: algebra, functions and graphs, geometry, trigonometry, and exponential and logarithmic functions.
Dates:
2009 Math Readiness Summer Camp
Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–4:30 pm
August 17–28, 2009
$270.00 (includes materials)
This two-week intensive course is held on the U of S Campus. Instruction is both lecture format and small group tutorial sessions.
Fall and Winter Term Evening classes
September 22 to November 26, 2009
Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Fee: $270.00 This course offers 40 hours of class time with an instructor and arranged hours of tutorial time.
What is Math Readiness?
Math Readiness is a non-credit “math review,” where you’ll learn specific skills (such as solving exponential equations), but we’ll also focus on more general abilities, such as being able to understand mathematical writing and being able to express ideas in mathematical notation. Although it does not specifically cover calculus, it will provide you with the background necessary for university calculus courses.
You will review:
- algebraic skills, such as properties of algebraic fractions, solving many different types of equations, radicals and exponents, and solving inequalities
- functions, emphasizing, understanding, and using function notation; domains of functions
- graphing, including standard graphs (such as lines and parabolas) as well as introducing graphs of new functions
- trigonometric functions, their properties and graphs; trigonometric identities
- concepts from geometry, such as similar triangles
- exponential and logarithmic functions and their graphs; properties of logarithms
We’ll help you figure out how to solve mathematical problems—how problems can be analyzed, types of approaches to different problems, and verifying the correctness of solutions. These skills are useful in any university-level science, engineering, mathematics or the Edwards School of Business course.
And we’ll help you get comfortable with the university environment, like the lecture format,which is used by most university instructors. Each short “math readiness” lesson will be given as a lecture, followed by a problem session. During the problem session, you’ll work on exercises with other students in small groups with the guidance of senior class assistants.
In addition to the math classes, tours of the campus will be available to help acquaint you with the University of Saskatchewan. And you’ll have enough free time to familiarize yourself with the city.
To register, or for more information
To register, please call the Centre for Continuing and Distance Education at (306) 966-5539. For information, please contact Robb Larmer at the Centre for Continuing and Distance Education at (306) 966-1739 or e-mail math.readiness@usask.ca.
Math Readiness is offered through partnership by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics and the Centre for Continuing & Distance Education. Information on the program is also available on the Math Readiness page at the web site of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
