Department of Mathematics and Statistics 620-161 Introductory Mathematics Semester I, 2005

Help Desk

The first source of help is the person beside you in lectures and tutorials, who is doing the same problems as you are and having similar but perhaps not exactly the same difficulties. Remember though, that fellow students have no obligation to help you, nor you to help them. Forming a small study group of two to four people is a preferred mode for "trading secrets" for many students.

The next source is your tutor: students are expected to attend all tutorials. Keep a list of problems and conceptual difficulties which you have, and ask your tutor for help with them at the tutorials.

There is a tutor-duty roster for students who want help between tutorials: attendance is purely voluntary, and the schedule for this service is on the Notice Board in the First Year Learning Centre. Your own tutor may or may not be one of the rostered tutors. This roster commences at the start of the third week of semester and continues up until the June examination.

Finally, after reviewing your lectures and reading your textbook and talking with your fellow students and your tutor, what do you do if you still have a problem? Your lecturer has three hours per week when he guarantees to be in his office so that 620-161 students may come to ask questions. The hours when your lecturer is available will be listed on a timetable on your lecturer's office door and on the subject website. You may particularly want to approach your lecturer if you have problems with concepts presented in a lecture.

Make sure that you seek help, if necessary, as early as possible. It is very difficult to catch-up the rest of the class if you stay behind.

If you have difficulties with the material covered in class, you should seek help from the tutors and lecturers. Don't be shy! We are all very nice people and we shall be delighted to help you!

Office hours of the lecturers and sessional tutors for this subject:

Lecturers

 

Exam time help.

Deb King (Stream 1)
Wednesday 8th June, Friday 17th June

10:30-3:00

Sanming Zhou (Stream 2)
Tuesday 14th June, Wednesday 15th June

10:00-1:00, 2:00-4:00

Tutors: See MSLC noriceboard

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Created: 19 February 2004
Last modified: 24 February 2005
Authorised by: Deborah King, Department of Mathematics and Statistics.