Maths bridging course? (1 Viewer)

[247365]

Hello

I have not studied maths since Year 10 (Vic), therefore my maths skills are virtually non-existent, apart from basic adding, multiplying, dividing etc.

I now want to study maths at university (I am in my first year currently). I'm mainly interested in maths for finance and economics courses.

What are my options for bridging courses? Most of the ones I've found seem to be aimed at people who are only looking for revision.

This seems to be the sort of thing I'm after: Bridging Courses in Mathematics - University of Sydney

However, the length of the course is only 2 weeks, with 2 hours of contact each day. How is it possible to cover 2 years of maths in that time?

Or is only what is specifically required at university level covered?

I'd really appreciate someone with a knowledge of this explaining my options.

Thanks.

 

[Uncle]

Hello

I have not studied maths since Year 10 (Vic), therefore my maths skills are virtually non-existent, apart from basic adding, multiplying, dividing etc.

I now want to study maths at university (I am in my first year currently). I'm mainly interested in maths for finance and economics courses.

What are my options for bridging courses? Most of the ones I've found seem to be aimed at people who are only looking for revision.

This seems to be the sort of thing I'm after: Bridging Courses in Mathematics - University of Sydney

However, the length of the course is only 2 weeks, with 2 hours of contact each day. How is it possible to cover 2 years of maths in that time?

Or is only what is specifically required at university level covered?

I'd really appreciate someone with a knowledge of this explaining my options.

Thanks.

there is your answer.
no bridging course needed.
finito.
when are you going to use anything higher than stats and simple calculus?

 

[ComingUpForAir]

there is your answer.
no bridging course needed.
finito.
when are you going to use anything higher than stats and simple calculus?

dont listen to this ill-invented nonsense
finance, and economics especially get very mathimathical (multivariate calculus, real analysis, topology etc)
Alot depends on the level of finance/economics you plan on reaching, if its only for undergraduate (i.e lvl 300) you will probably only need intermiediate calculus

 

[247365]

Thanks for your input ComingUpForAir...it's obvious that Uncle is wrong- what about actuarial studies etc?

Anyone know anything about bridging course specifics?

 

[ninjapuppet]

I was once upon a time, a yr 12 maths whizz, but really struggled in first year actuarial studies after many years not touching up on it. It took me a year to finally catch up to speed.

my advice, is not to go straight into actuarial, but to do a year of maths courses first...., even externally if you have to. First year actuarial is mainly calculus, algebra and stats (which i think you havent even seen in yr 10)

If i were you, i would seek as many materials on basic maths as i can such as MIT's course.

Free Online Course Materials | Courses | MIT OpenCourseWare

i did the unsw 2 weeks maths refresher, and found it useless since it goes into no where enough details required for first year actuarial. What i found most useful, were the "algebara & calculus for dummies books", and the actuarial institute's FAC coursepack.

if you cant do these 20 questions as a pre-knowledge test, you are in for a real shock for actuarial studies.

http://www.acted.com.au/study_materials/documents/2006/fac/FAC-InitialAssessment2006.pdf


only consider actuarial, once you can actually read all these symbols and at least have an idea how to go about these questions. In my opinion, to put actuarial studies under the heading "commerce" is almost an insult. it is on a totally different level compared to your usual commerce subjects.