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The UBC Mathematics Department is always open to
suggestions about resources to provide to Undergraduates. If you have
any ideas that
would make your Math course easier, please email us at
math(at)math.ubc.ca
Non-credit courses offered by Continuing Studies
Math 001 and Math 002 are pre-calculus courses designed
to help students meet the challenge of first-year math courses. Math
002 can be used as a prerequisite for Math 180 or 184. Classes are
user-friendly and offer individual attention to each student. For more
information, see http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/math/
Math 003 and Math 004 are calculus courses intended for
students who have
passed Principles of Math 12 or Math 002 with a C+ or B and would like
to be introduced to calculus in a non-threatening environment
in which classes are small and students receive individual attention.
Students who are struggling with Math 180 or Math 184 may want to
consider transferring to Math 003. A moderate pace allows students to
monitor their own progress and gain confidence in the subject. For more
information, see http://www.cstudies.ubc.ca/math/
The
Math Department runs a drop-in tutorial centre for undergraduate Math
courses,
staffed by Graduate Teaching Assistants.
This centre is located in Rooms 300, 301, and 302 in the
Leonard S.
Klinck (LSK) Building, and is open Monday through Friday, 9:30am to
6:30pm.All tutors provide assistance with
first- and
second-year calculus and linear algebra and will attempt to help with
any
undergraduate Math course. For
higher-level courses, check the MLC website for times when there is a
tutor
working who specializes in your course subject.
There is no charge for this service.
Mathematics Library
All Mathematics undergraduates are strongly encouraged
to make full use of the Mathematics Library, located in the
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Level 4, North Wing). The online
resources of books and journals are substantial.
Computer Lab Facilities
The Mathematics Undergraduate Computer Lab is located
in Room 310 in
the Leonard S. Klinck (LSK) Building. Students can use any of the 40
Windows workstations and a printer networked to the Mathematics Unix
servers.
Users have access to various installed software to do course work, such
as mathematical packages (Maple, Matlab, R), browsers and information
readers (Firefox, email readers), editors and word processing (Open
Office, TeX), and programming tools (GCC compilers, Java toolkit). This
lab is open Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm.
In addition, Rooms 121 in LSK and 1042/1046 in ESB are
available to
Mathematics and Statistics undergraduates with lab
accounts. Room 121 consists of 70 CAIL terminals which have Windows and
Unix login with access to the same
servers as in the Mathematics Undergraduate Computer Lab, as well as
to additional software from several Windows 2000 servers (Jumpin,
Microsoft Office, Lindo and Lingo, Scientific Notepad). Rooms 1042 and
1046 in ESB each have 20
Mac workstations. Two printers
are available, with a strictly enforced quota of 35 pages per course.
These labs are open Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, provided
they have not been reserved by an instructor. All labs are closed
on
weekends and holidays.
All Mathematics undergraduates are strongly encouraged
to join the Math
Club located in Mathematics Annex 1119. The Math Club plays the role of
a social centre for Mathematics students. It organizes lectures, study
sessions, mentoring, and social functions, and it has a library,
telephone, refrigerator, cheap food and pop, etc. The membership fee is
nominal. Just prior
to the December and April examination periods, the Math
Club sells copies of previous final exams and solutions for most
first- and second-year and some third-year Math courses.
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