Boot Camps / First Week Tutoring
Regular Boot Camps for Spring 2025 Courses
Regular boot camps are one-hour sessions reviewing the specific topics. They are offered both day and evening, onsite and virtually. Register for these session on Navigate.
- REVIEW OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS: Operations on rational numbers (including order of operations), Conversions between Representations of Fractions, Decimals, Percent and Percent Problems
- LINEAR EQUATIONS AND INEQUALITIES: Solving Linear Equations and Inequalities, Writing English Expressions into Algebraic Equations, and Solving Verbal Problems (age, number, perimeter, real-life)
- POLYNOMIALS AND FACTORING: Operations on Polynomials and Basic Factoring Techniques
- RATIONAL EXPRESSIONS: Simplifying Expressions, Operations on Rational Expressions, Advanced Factoring Techniques, Calculating Zeros
- GRAPHING: Slope-Intercept Form, Point-Slope Form, Parabolas, and Minimum/Maximum
- INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONS: Domain, Evaluating Functions, Sketching Graphs
- GEOMETRY: Circles, Piecewise Functions, Even/Odd Functions, Parallel, Perpendicular Lines
- INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY: Degrees, Radians, Unit Circle, Arc Length, and Reference Angles
- TRIGONOMETRY CONTINUED: Co-functions, Trig Identity Proofs, Polar Coordinates, Sketching Functions without Calculator
- VERBAL PROBLEMS USING FORMULAE AND SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS: Systems of Equations and Verbal Problems (general, percentage, mixture, solutions, work)
- INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS: Expanding and Simplifying Factorials and Expanding Binomials
- ROMAN NUMERALS AND VENN DIAGRAMS: Reading and Writing Roman Numerals, Creating and Reading Venn Diagrams
- CURVE SKETCHING: Graphs of Important functions, symmetry, asymptotes and transformations.
- ABSOLUTE VALUE AND PIECEWISE FUNCTIONS: Reading piecewise functions, important examples and properties of piecewise functions
- INVERSE FUNCTIONS: Computing inverse functions, the role of inverses, and important examples of inverses
- UNIT CONVERSIONS: Understanding and practicing common unit conversions that appear most often in math/stat/QR settings
- SEQUENCES: Understanding sequences, their importance in different settings, various forms and common examples of sequences.
- COUNTING AND BASIC PROBABILITY: Permutations, Combinations, Probability of Simple Events, Compound Events, Conditional Events
- LIMITS AND CONTINUITY: Properties of Limits, examples of computing limits, intro to the limit definition of the derivatives, asymptotes of functions
- DERIVATIVES: Properties of derivatives, computing derivatives, implicit differentiation, higher-order derivatives
- INTEGRALS: Definite and indefinite integration, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, the substitution rule
- APPLICATIONS OF CALCULUS: Related rates, optimization, curve sketching, areas between curves, volumes of solids of revolution