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
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- Permission of Department
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.00 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.20 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 1
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2025 | Juliana Belding | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 1–3 hrs/week | 5 of 10 |