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Math Camp Schedule 2024

Instructors: Jess Kunke and Adam Visokay

Note for participants: Please see emails and this page for updates before and during the math camp.

 

9am-12pm: Review math concepts, do practice problems

12-1pm: Lunch/break

1-2pm: Office hour/extra practice

2-4pm: Introduction to R programming language

 

Slides and materials will be linked in the schedule below as they are made available. Much of the course material provided here was first created by Laina Mercer with developments by Jessica Godwin, Peter Gao, Jess Kunke and Erin Lipman.

 

Tentative calendar (will be continually updated during the camp):

DayMath ConceptsR Lab Content
Mon 9/9
  • Algebra
  • Linear equations and systems of equations
  • Functions and limits
  • Intro to R Studio interface
  • Basic operations and variables in R
  • Reading in and exploring data
Tue 9/10
  • Matrices
  • Data manipulation and visualization with tidyverse
Wed 9/11
  • Derivatives
  • Optimization (finding minima/maxima)
  • Data manipulation and visualization with tidyverse (continued)
Thu 9/12
  • Intro to probability (sets, basic rules, conditional probability)
  • Random variables (bernoulli, binomial, uniform, normal; expectation, variance)
  • Probability distributions (pmfs/pdfs))
  • Probability and sampling
Fri 9/13
  • Integrals
  • Numerical approximation to integrals
  • Monte Carlo integration
  • Flex time to go over anything that was confusing/could use more practice
  • Data Extensions and TBD