Preparatory maths summer courses for prospective AUC students

AUC students are expected to start at AUC with good skills in mathematics.  For students invited to study at AUC with gaps in their mathematical skills, AUC together with the Korteweg de Vries Institute offer a summer mathematics course to address these deficiencies.

Course Pre-calculus (for prospective Science majors)

Coordinator:   Dr. Jasper Stokman

Topics

• Short recapitulation of elementary algebraic operations.
• Inequalities
• Coordinates in the plane
• Functions, graphs, and quadratic formula
• Trigonometric functions
• Limits of functions
• Limits at infinity
• Tangent lines and slopes
• Derivatives, derivatives of trigonometric functions
• Differentiation rules
• Extrema of functions

Course material*: Robert A. Adams, Christopher Essex, "Calculus. A complete course", 7th edition, Pearson education.

To register for this course, please click the link below.

Course Pre-statistics (for prospective Social Science and Humanities majors)

Coordinator: Dr. Bert van Es

Topics

• Picturing distributions with graphs, describing distributions with numbers.
• Introducing probability, general rules of probability.
• Binomial setting and binomial distribution, binomial probabilities.
• Expectation, variance, rules for functions of random variables, all for discrete distributions.
• (if time permits): some calculus subjects concerning functions and differentiation.

Course material*:

B. Baldi , D.S. Moore, "The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences", second printing, W.H. Freeman and Company.

To register for this course, please click the link below.

*Both textbooks will also be used during AUC 1st year courses (‘Calculus' and ‘Basic research Methods and Statistics', respectively).

To deregister for either summer course, please click the link below.