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Incoming Undergraduates & Families

Summer Math Boot Camp for Business Students

»Summer Math Boot Camp for the Argyros College of Business and Economics 2025 incoming class

Chapman’s Mathematics Program is hosting a free, virtual preparatory Mathematics Boot Camp for the incoming Argyros College of Business and Economics class.

The boot camp consists of a series of lectures that will focus on key mathematical concepts crucial for success in business and economics.

  • The boot camp consists of seven modules offered over two weeks:
    • Week 1: June 1618, 2025 (Monday through Wednesday)
    • Week 2: June 2326, 2025 (Monday through Thursday)
  • The daily schedule runs from 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. (see below for schedule breakdown).
  • Lectures and practice sessions will take place on Zoom.
  • In case you can't attend every session, all lectures will be recorded and made available to registrants later. (But you must be registered in the boot camp for access).

Topics covered

We will cover a new topic every day. While you can choose to participate in only some of them, we strongly recommend that you participate in all or as many as you can:

  • Day 1 (Monday, June 16): Applications of proportions to business problems
  • Day 2 (Tuesday, June 17): Power functions and algebraic expressions
  • Day 3 (Wednesday, June 18): Working with rational expressions
  • Day 4 (Monday, June 23): Exponential functions
  • Day 5 (Tuesday, June 24): Inverse functions and logarithms
  • Day 6 (Wednesday, June 25): Matrices and their applications
  • Day 7 (Thursday, June 26): Problem-solving skills and college mathematics success

Daily topics are subject to change. 

Daily schedule

  • 9–10:30 a.m.: Lecture (with examples)
  • 10:30–10:45 a.m.: Break
  • 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.: Lecture (with examples)
  • 12:15–1:30 p.m.: Lunch break
  • 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Lecture (with examples)
  • 2:30–2:45 p.m.: Break
  • 2:45–4:30 p.m.: Supervised practice

 


How to join

Space in the program is limited. Interested, incoming Chapman students can register here.

Logging in

Our course can be found on Chapman’s Canvas online course management system. After registering for the boot camp, you will be given access to join via a tile within Canvas.