Assignment 2

Assignment 2 based on Chapter 2 is on Canvas now: Canvas —> MATH7019 —> Assignments. It is due in two weeks.

Assignment 1

In Winter 2021, this was the Final Grade vs Assignment 1:

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What we see is that, roughly, on average, is that a prediction for your final grade, based on your Assignment 1 performance, is half of your Test 1 score +14. This means that people who got below about 52% on Assignment 1 are predicted to fail. I want the people in this area to push themselves to the green region. These are students who are predicted to fail but go on to pass. To do this, students have to continue coming to lecture and tutorials, and perhaps also look at attending the Academic Learning Centre Links to an external site.. They will also want to do very well on Assignment 2.

I also want people in the 50-80% range not to get complacent. Students in this range are predicted to pass, but you can see students in the orange region who did OK in Assignment 1 but went on to fail or nearly fail. These students need to continue coming to class, especially tutorials.

Assignment 2 is now available. Ye can do start Problems A to C already. If you want to start Problem D ahead of Week 8 you can learn about Euler’s Method in videos 27 to 29 in the lecture video playlist.

Week 8

We did some Euler’s Method on Monday. A lot of students had a catch up tutorial later on Monday. We had some other tutorial time, but then also had a Concept MCQ and finished Chapter 2 and began Chapter 3, by talking about probability theory, notably mutual exclusivity and independence of events (and of random variables).

Week 9

We will look at the normal distribution (more calculation focused), and then start looking at sampling.

We will probably have no tutorial.

Academic Learning Centre

I would urge anyone having any problems with material that isn’t being addressed in the tutorial communication to use the Academic Learning Centre. If you are a little worried about your maths this semester you need to be aware of this resource. You will get best results if you come to the helpers there with specific questions.

Student Resources

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

Study

Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.