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, July 28): Applications of proportions to science; working with fractions
- Day 2 (Tuesday, July 29): Power functions, algebraic expressions, and operations with polynomials
- Day 3 (Wednesday, July 30): Working with rational expressions
- Day 4 (Thursday, July 31): Trigonometry
- Day 5 (Friday, August 1): Exponential functions
- Day 6 (Monday, August 4): Inverses of functions with applications to logarithms and inverse trig function.
- Day 7 (Tuesday, August 5): Complex numbers, their geometry and applications
- Day 8 (Wednesday, August 6): Matrices and their applications
- Day 9 (Thursday, August 7): Problem-solving skills
- Day 10 (Friday, August 8): How to succeed in college mathematics
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.