This document describes several resources available to you for finding additional help in your math classes. We've tried to make it as complete and accurate as possible; email suggestions for additions or corrections to rivard@math.wisc.edu.
The Mathematics Tutorial Program offers review workshops at the beginning of classes each semester. These workshops cover some of the material that your instructor assumes you will remember from previous courses.
Workshops are offered for Math 112, 113, 114, 171, 211, 213, 217, 221, 222, and 234.
Workshops for Fall Semester will be held Wednesday September 2, Thursday September 3, and (for some courses) Tuesday September 8, 2009.
See the Fall 2009 Workshop Schedule for more information.
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All teaching assistants (TAs) and professors schedule two or more office hours per week; those are times which your instructor has set aside specifically to work with students from their classes. Office hour schedules are announced in class, and should also be posted on the instructor's office door.
Office listings for math department faculty, staff, and TAs are posted
by each elevator in Van Vleck Hall; otherwise, one can check the
directories of Mathematics Department
Professors,
Staff,
and
TAs.
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The Math Lab offers free, drop in assistance to all students enrolled in math classes through third-semester calculus (i.e., Math 95, 101, 112, 113, 114, 171, 211, 213, 217, 221, 222, and 234.) All Math Department TAs work shifts in the Math Lab over the course of the semester, so you will see different (smiling helpful) faces each time you go!
The Math Lab is an especially good place to go if you have a quick homework question; more detailed questions are probably better directed to your TA.
GUTS offers free peer tutoring for a variety of classes, from English to Chemistry; their tutors are volunteers, fellow students (undergraduate and graduate) who are interested in the topics they are tutoring, and interested in helping others learn.
The Mathematics Tutorial Program offers intensive small-group tutoring for students enrolled in Math 95, 101, 112, 113, 114, 171/217, 211, 213, 221, 222 and 234. Students enrolled in the Tutorial Program meet in small groups (maximum of 8 to 10 people) for two hours per week; these group meetings have students working on challenging problems at the chalkboard, with help from a tutor. The staff for the tutorial program includes Mathematics Department staff, experienced Mathematics Department TAs, and graduate students from related departments (Engineering, Math Education).
Students must enroll in the Mathematics Tutorial Program in order to use our office hours and tutorial sessions; see the Math Tutorial Web Page for more details.
The Mathematics Department publishes a list of Mathematics graduate students who are willing to tutor students; copies are available on the second floor of Van Vleck Hall, next to the elevators.
This is the official UW Mathematics Library Web site. It also has links to sample exams.
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page]
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The Math Board is a wooden board with slots labeled for many of the department's mathematics courses (101 through 632); interested students can fill out a card with information about themselves (name, course, instructor, contact information), and put that card in the slot which matches their course. Students can also read the cards that have been placed into the various slots, and use the information from the cards to contact one another to set up study groups, etc....
The Mathematics Library Web page has several sample exams on line.
The mathematics department faculty minority liaison is Leslie Smith .
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