Introduction to Mathematical Thinking @ FIX University Campus

Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

Keith Devlin

Learn how to think the way mathematicians do - a powerful cognitive process developed over thousands of years.
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First course assignment

The assignment from Lecture 1 can be found on the "Course assignments" page. (See the left-hand navigation column.) Unfortunately, the Coursera platform cannot currently display the assignments in the Upcoming Items box on the Home Page, so you should look at the "Course assignments" page after each lecture, to find the associated assignment.
-- KD

Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:15:00 AM PDT

Set Theory supplement

In response to comments on the forum, I've updated the Set Theory supplement to correct a couple of typos and to add a longer preamble clarifying when you need this material and how you might best use the supplement. As several students commented, the supplement assumes familiarity with material that is covered in the first part of the course, and hence can appear daunting if you have not previously seen this stuff (or have long forgotten it). We won't really use much set theory until the final week of lectures, so there is plenty of time to become familiar with it. Thanks for all those students who helped others with the exercises. Collaborative group work is what this course is all about, and it was great for me, as instructor, to observe it in action!
-- KD

Tue 18 Sep 2012 6:21:00 AM PDT

Community TA identification

Thanks to all who volunteered to be Community Teaching Assistants. Having Community TAs is a new feature that Coursera is implementing for the first time for our course. At this stage, there is some manual work required to take the volunteers' enrollment names from the Course Survey and tag them so that their status as Community TAs is indicated when they post to the forum discussions. It will thus be some days before those identifications will appear. In the meantime, if you have not yet completed the survey, please do so. It is not a course requirement, but the more feedback we get, the better our chances of making improvements to the course in future years, and, more generally, increasing our understanding of how people learn math.

Mon 17 Sep 2012 9:30:00 PM PDT