School of Mathematics and Statistics
Junior
The University of Sydney
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Junior Mathematics and Statistics

This site contains information on Junior Mathematics at the University of Sydney. Each unit of study has its own web page; links to these pages are given in the table below.

 

Contact details

 

General and administrative enquiries about Junior units of study should be directed to the School of Mathematics and Statistics Student Office, located on level 5 of the Carslaw Building (Room 520, opposite the lifts).

Phone number: 9351 5787.
Email: firstyear@maths.usyd.edu.au.
Students: Please give your name and SID in your email message. Anonymous messages will probably not be answered.

The Director of First Year Studies in the School of Mathematics and Statistics is Sandra Britton (Carslaw 534).

Enquiries about details of a particular unit of study should be directed to the lecturer for that unit, who can be contacted by email if necessary. For further information, follow the link below to the web page for the relevant unit.

SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMS

 

Basic important information

 

  • There is a Frequently Asked Questions page. If there is something you want to know, check there first!
  • Every enrolled student should obtain a copy of the Junior Mathematics and Statistics Handbook, which contains all important information relating to Junior Mathematics and Statistics. The handbook for 2008 is available from the School of Mathematics and Statistics Student Office, and is also provided online as a pdf file.

    Click here for the 2008 Junior Mathematics and Statistics Handbook

(To view pdf files you need to install Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.)

 

Further important information

 

For many junior mathematics exams, students are not allowed to take their own calculators into the examination room: instead, calculators are supplied. These university supplied exam calculators are Casio's model fx-85MS. Although this model is no longer sold, it is quite similar to the currently available Casio fx-82AU. If you want to check out the University supplied calculator before your exam, ask the Student Centre to show you one. Or, look at the picture of the calculator shown here.

 

Units of Study

 

Life Sciences Units
First Semester Second Semester
MATH1011
Life Sciences Calculus SS
MATH1015 Life Sciences Statistics*
MATH1013
Life Sciences Difference and Differential Equations SS
MATH1014
Introduction to Linear Algebra SS
Normal Units
First Semester Second Semester
MATH1001
Differential Calculus SS
MATH1002
Linear Algebra SS
MATH1003
Integral Calculus and modelling SS
MATH1004
Discrete Mathematics SS
MATH1005
Statistics* SS
Advanced Units
First Semester Second Semester
MATH1901 Differential Calculus (Advanced)
MATH1902 Linear Algebra (Advanced)
MATH1906 Mathematics (Special Studies Program) A
MATH1903 Integral Calculus and Modelling (Advanced)
MATH1905 Statistics (Advanced)
MATH1907 Mathematics (Special Studies Program) B
Other Units
(not available to all students)
First Semester Second Semester
MATH1111 Introduction to Calculus
STAT1021 General Statistical Methods 1
* MATH1015 and MATH1005 are essentially the same and can be substituted for each other. Students wishing to study statistics at this level are free to choose either the first semester unit MATH1015 or the second semester unit MATH1005