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Test 2
Hopefully these results can be released the week of 4 December.
Student Feedback
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Week 11
We will nearly finished Chapter 4 by looking at Related Rates and starting Implicit Differentiation.
Wednesday tutorials were focussed on Chapter 3 but the Friday BioEng2 tutorial was the first of the revision tutorials.
Week 12
We will finish the manual and then start revision.
Week 13
We will have all classes scheduled up to and including 12 December. These will all be tutorials
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
See Canvas —> MATH6055 —> Assignments, for more information, including sample tests.
Student Feedback
If you would like to give fully anonymous feedback on this module and my teaching please go here.
Week 10
We looked at applications of partial differentiation to error analysis. Then we started looking at parametric differentiation.
The tutorials will again be focused on Chapter 3.
Week 11
We will hopefully finish Chapter 4 by looking at Related Rates and Implicit Differentiation.
Wednesday tutorials are focussed on Chapter 3 but the Friday BioEng2 tutorial will be the first of the revision tutorials.
Week 12
We will finish the manual and then start revision.
Students will receive one-to-one help in tutorial, but it will be up to students to decide what they want to look at; be it Vectors, Matrices, or Further Differentiation.
Students who don’t know what to do might be invited to look at the exam paper at the back of the manual.
Week 13
We will have all classes scheduled up to and including 12 December. These will all be tutorials
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
See Canvas —> MATH6055 —> Assignments, for more information, including sample tests.
Week 9
We drove into Chapter 4, with a revision class on differentiation, then talking about transforms, and then functions of several variables and partial differentiation. We should have been able to look at applications of partial differentiation to error analysis, but unfortunately nobody told me our Friday lecture venue was being used for the MTU Open Day, and we lost out on a class.
Week 10
We will look at applications of partial differentiation to error analysis. Then we will look at parametric differentiation.
The tutorials will again be focused on Chapter 3. We might get some tutorial time on Chapter 4 in lectures.
Week 11
We will hopefully finish Chapter 4 by looking at Related Rates and Implicit Differentiation.
Week 12
We will finish the manual and then start revision.
Students will receive one-to-one help in tutorial, but it will be up to students to decide what they want to look at; be it Vectors, Matrices, or Further Differentiation.
Students who don’t know what to do might be invited to look at the exam paper at the back of the manual.
Week 13
We will have all classes scheduled up to and including 12 December. These will all be tutorials
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
See Canvas —> MATH6055 —> Assignments, for more information, including sample tests.
Week 8
After the break, we will finish talking about integration by parts, and then start talking applications (some of which you have seen before).
Week 9
We will drive into Chapter 4, with a revision class on differentiation, then talking about transforms, and then functions of several variables and partial differentiation. We should be able to look at applications of partial differentiation to error analysis.
The tutorials will be focused on Chapter 3. We might get some tutorial time on Chapter 4 in lectures.
Outlook
We will complete Chapter 4 over Weeks 10 and 11. The tutorials in Week 11 will be focused on Chapter 3/Test 2, but Week 11 and possibly Week 12 will be focused on Chapter 4. Week 12 lectures might be revision in the form of tutorials.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Formula Booklet/Tables
I recommend that you get your hands on a state formulae booklet… even if you print off the relevant pages from the below. I have a sheet to keep you going, and will offer it out during class… but it isn’t the below, not the one you will have in Test 2 and the final exam.
Week 7
We finished our revision of integration and antidifferentiation, and then looked at completing the square and integration by parts. Integration by parts comes from running the product rule of differentiation backwards.
Week 8
After the break, we will finish talking about integration by parts, and then start talking applications (some of which you have seen before).
Outlook
In Weeks 8 and 9 we will look at some applications. We will start Chapter 4 in Week 9/10.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
I have added materials (sample tests, etc.) to Canvas (Assignments –> Test 2)
Week 6
For most students, Chapters 1 and 2 are easier, but Chapter 3 is the most important part of MATH6040 for third year, so it will have a big focus.
We started quick revision of integration and anti-differentiation.
Week 7
We will finish our revision, and then look at completing the square and introduce integration by parts. Integration by parts comes from running the product rule of differentiation backwards.
To view your Test 1 work, please attend your tutorial.
Outlook
In Weeks 8 and 9 we will look at some applications. We will start Chapter 4 in Week 9/10.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
I have added materials (sample tests, etc.) to Canvas (Assignments –> Test 2)
No classes Friday 13 October
The Friday 13 October lecture in is cancelled (not postponed).
The BioEng2B tutorial at 13:00 on Friday 13 October is cancelled, but the BioEng2B students invited to the BioEng2A tutorial at 15:00 on Wednesday 18 October in B260
Test 1
Hopefully these will be corrected next week.
Week 5
We looked at Matrix Inverses — “dividing” for Matrices. This allowed us to solve matrix equations, including linear systems. We will also look at determinants.
Week 6
We will try and cover quite quickly the important topic (for passing MATH6040) of Cramer’s Rule. Then we will start Chapter 3, on integration.
Outlook
In Week 7 we will add two further techniques of integration to your arsenal. In Week 8 we will look at some applications. We might start Chapter 4 in Week 9, and a sample test for Test 2, on Chapter 3, will appear in Week 9.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
Test 1
The test will be Wednesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.
Week 4
We started working on matrices. We looked at Matrix Inverses — “dividing” for Matrices. This will allow us to solve matrix equations, including linear systems. We will also look at determinants.
Some deeper discussion here: Why do we multiply matrices like we do?, Why can’t I divide by zero?
Week 5
We will continue working on matrices, in particular how to solve matrix equations, including linear systems. We will also look at determinants.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
If BioEng2B students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
If students genuinely cannot make the Friday tutorial, they may come to the BioEng2A tutorial at 3 pm on Wednesdays in B260. This can continue as long as the number of students in that tutorial stays at 20 or below.
Test 1
The test will be the Wednesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.
Week 3
We finished Chapter 1, and the material for Test 1, by talking at the applications of vectors to work and moments.
Week 4
We will start Chapter 2, on Matrices. We will look at Matrix Inverses — “dividing” for Matrices. This will allow us to solve matrix equations. We might also look at determinants.
Some deeper discussion here: Why do we multiply matrices like we do?, Why can’t I divide by zero?
Tutorials
I am still trying to sort out with BioEng2B the best slot for their tutorials. Unfortunately there was no room availability for Tuesday.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
The manuals are available in the Copy Centre (at a cost of €15.50). The newer batches don’t have the issue with the offset/bind, and the copy centre do apologise for this error.
Tutorials
The most important thing in your MATH6040 world is to attend tutorials regularly.
I have sent an email to BioEng2 about their Friday tutorial. There is a change proposed.
Test 1
The test will be the Wednesday evening, 11 October, of Week 5. See Canvas (MATH6040 —> Assignments) for further details.
Week 2
In Week 2 we spoke about vector products: the dot product and the vector product.
Week 3
In Week 3 we will finish Chapter 1, and the material for Test 1, by talking at the applications of vectors to work and moments.
Study
Please feel free to ask me questions about the exercises via email.
Student Resources
Please see Student Resources for information on the Academic Learning Centre, etc.
Test 2
Test 2 is provisionally booked for the Wednesday of Week 11:
| 29/11/2023 | 18.00-19.00 | MATH6040 | Technological Maths 201 | 60+ | A – D |
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