I am emailing a link of this to everyone on the class list every week. If you are not receiving these emails or want to have them sent to another email address feel free to email me at jpmccarthymaths@gmail.com and I will add you to the mailing list.

Manuals

The manuals are available in the Copy Centre. Please purchase ASAP. More information has been sent via email.

Telegram App

I am exploring the possibility of setting up a classroom group chat that would have the functionality of WhatsApp without having your phone number made public.

If this is something you might be interested in, please download the Telegram app and set yourself up with an @ handle.

We might talk about this again next week.

FAO: Erasmus Students — Calculators

The Student Resources tab above contains some information about calculators.

Here is a list of some allowed and not allowed calculators.

If you have to purchase a calculator, my recommendation is that you purchase something like a Casio fx-83GT PLUS. This might be available in the CIT shop.

Tutorials

Tutorials, which are absolutely vital, start next week. There may be a split but this might not occur until Week 3.

Week 1

In week one we had one and a half classes. One half class was given over to a general overview of MATH7019 and we spent about an hour introducing the topic of Curve Fitting including Lagrange Interpolation.

Week 2

We will start talking about Least Squares curve fitting.

Quick Test: Academic Learning Centre

I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorials to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester, perhaps after the Quick Test or in general, you need to be aware of this resource. The timetable should be up some time next week.

You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions. Next week, some students will receive slips detailing areas of maths that they should brush up on.

Assessment 1

Assessment 1 will have a hand-in date the Friday of Week 5, 11 October. The Assignment is in the manual but I must also send on your personal data sets next week.

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email or even better on this webpage — especially those of us who struggled in the test.

Student Resources

Please see the Student Resources tab on the top of this page for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.

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