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Incoming Undergraduates & Families

Summer Math Boot Camp

ยป Summer Math Boot Camp for the STEM 2024 incoming class

Chapman’s Mathematics Program is hosting a free, virtual preparatory Mathematics Boot Camp for the incoming STEM class.

The boot camp consists of a series of lectures that will fill mathematical gaps and prepare you for a great start in your math courses and STEM academic program.

  • The bootcamp consists of 10 modules offered every weekday from Monday, July 29 through Friday, August 9. 2024.
  • 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.

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

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 bootcamp, you will be given access to join via a tile within Canvas.