Enterring Maths

CB93

Anyone know where I could find a timetable for this year's maths course? If it's not available yet does any of you know where I could see a copy of last years so I can have an idea of hours etc?

CB

Sheedy07

Ya also if anyone had a copy of last years tp timetable would they please post it or pm it to me please, thanks :-)

Maybe_Memories

CB93 wrote: »

Anyone know where I could find a timetable for this year's maths course? If it's not available yet does any of you know where I could see a copy of last years so I can have an idea of hours etc?

CB

It'll look something like this. There's very little change from year to year. Btw you wont have all of these hours, some are group tutorials and all are listed so you might only have one per module a week. TP maths also looks like this.

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/undergraduate/timetable/ttjf.html

Sheedy07

@Maybe_Memories Ya i found the tp one from the link you gave, thanks :-D

CB93

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

It'll look something like this. There's very little change from year to year. Btw you wont have all of these hours, some are group tutorials and all are listed so you might only have one per module a week. TP maths also looks like this.

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/undergraduate/timetable/ttjf.html

Thanks for that, very helpful. Btw do you know which are tutorials? All the classes add up to about 30hrs, how many of these will I not be doing? Will it bring me down to like 25hrs or less?

Late start on Monday mornings is handy but late Friday evenings could be annoying for bus home. :mad:

Maybe_Memories

CB93 wrote: »

Thanks for that, very helpful. Btw do you know which are tutorials? All the classes add up to about 30hrs, how many of these will I not be doing? Will it bring me down to like 25hrs or less?

Late start on Monday mornings is handy but late Friday evenings could be annoying for bus home. :mad:

Keep in mind this is the second term timetable so you will have already ditched either mechanics, computation or stats, so first term will have 3 extra hours.

In general a module will have 3 hours a week including a tutorial. Some tutorials might only be every second week so every other week a lecture will be in its place.

If you dropped computation say, and you had the above timetable, I'd say about 21 hours. A tutorial is anything with a t at the end, and that last tutorial on a Friday could be switched to another if you just email the lecturer.

Also the things at 9 and 11 on Tuesday are not compulsory. They're the maths help room sessions and you can just go in if you're having trouble with a question or whatever. In the past two years I've never been to any of these.

PurpleFistMixer

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

Also the things at 9 and 11 on Tuesday are not compulsory. They're the maths help room sessions and you can just go in if you're having trouble with a question or whatever. In the past two years I've never been to any of these.

Okay, so maybe there are special maths helprooms for first years that I'm not aware of (which seems unlikely given I've been doing helprooms for 2 years now), but generally the maths helproom is either at 12pm or 1pm and on every week day, and doesn't show up on the timetable. Unless things have changed from when I was in first year (likely, due to it being 4 years ago now) that class you see is a "Problem Solving in Maths" thing which was indeed 'optional' (ie not graded) but was not The Maths Helproom.

Also, in response to CB93/more clarification about timetable: that timetable shows all the tutorial slots, but you won't have to go to all of those. One tutorial per class per week is the maximum you should expect.

Tweej

Well I might as well go ahead and admit it. I'm a pilot schooler entering into TP.

Though I've done integration in applied maths, will I be okay?

Only thing I'm worried about not doing is matrices. I'll probably try looking at some things online to get the gist of them.

Ash_M

Last year Pete did matrices from scratch for the benefit of pilot school people, and Donal did the same for integration. I wouldn't worry about it too much, you'll catch up in no time.

CJC86

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Okay, so maybe there are special maths helprooms for first years that I'm not aware of (which seems unlikely given I've been doing helprooms for 2 years now), but generally the maths helproom is either at 12pm or 1pm and on every week day, and doesn't show up on the timetable. Unless things have changed from when I was in first year (likely, due to it being 4 years ago now) that class you see is a "Problem Solving in Maths" thing which was indeed 'optional' (ie not graded) but was not The Maths Helproom.

Also, in response to CB93/more clarification about timetable: that timetable shows all the tutorial slots, but you won't have to go to all of those. One tutorial per class per week is the maximum you should expect.

Yes, those slots are the "Problem Solving" courses. There's no grade for them, but they're designed to help with the change from school maths to college maths. They are a supplement, of sorts, to the more abstract courses that you do in first year, Algebra (both linear and modern) and Analysis.

I'd recommend going to them, because while it seems to easy and natural when the lecturer is doing these problems on the board, it's trickier when you sit down to do them yourself. Also, don't get discouraged if you find some of the problems tricky to begin with, it gets easier the more you practice attempting problems yourself.