MATH 1006 Thinking Like a Mathematician

This course is designed for students with a desire to expand their problem-solving skills and strategies. Students will develop a flexible and transferable collection of skills and strategies for tackling unfamiliar problems in Mathematics and beyond, which will be helpful for quantitative aspects of STEM majors. In addition, students will work with select mathematics topics commonly used in General Chemistry, including rational expressions, exponential and logarithmic functions, dimensional analysis, and working with parameters.

Course overview

Department
Mathematics
School
MCAS
Credits
1
Level
Undergraduate
Offered
Every Summer

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Prerequisites
Permission of Department

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4.00 / 5

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