Tutorials are held each week, except for the first week of each term. In addition to the lectures and tutorials, there are computer practical sessions in the Computing Laboratory on the ground floor of the School of Mathematics. In the weeks in which you have a computational mathematics lecture, you should tackle most of the exercises in that week's computational mathematics work sheet in the practical session that week. The work is based on the topic covered in the Monday lecture. This package will allow you to test yourself and give yourself practice in basic mathematical techniques throughout the rest of the year.
Experience shows that progress in mathematics depends crucially on regular work at examples.
See the section Formal Requirements of the Unit below. This is a 40 credit-point unit, which means that you should spend a third of your working time on it. The university expects students to work roughly 40 hours a week, which means 13 or 14 hours per week throughout the academic year spent on mathematics. Some students may need to spend more time than this in order to master the subject, some may need less. Studying mathematics is different from many other subjects.