Enrollment Help: Students who are unable to enroll in math courses because of prerequisite issues can request help at the form linked below. If classes have reserved or restricted seats, students should first attempt to add themselves to the waitlist, if possible.
- Math enrollment help: go.ncsu.edu/MathEnrollment
Math Placement: Information on our math placement assessment can be found at https://math.sciences.ncsu.edu/mathplacement/. Students should be encouraged to use the included learning modules to improve their score and placement. They can retake the assessment up to 4 times.
Prerequisites: The math department does not enforce prerequisites on MA 103, 105, 107, 111, or 114. Students who need MA 121 or MA 131 but do not meet the prerequisite should enroll in MA 107. Students who need MA 141 but do not meet the prerequisite should enroll in MA 111.
MA 131 to MA 241 pathway: The math department is continuing our pilot of a 1-credit corequisite course for students whose academic plans might have changed. For help enrolling, students should add MA 493 and the desired section(s) of MA 241 to their shopping cart and fill out the info requested at go.ncsu.edu/MathEnrollment.
MA 493: Calculus II Bridge Course
Spring 2021 First 8-week session: 1-credit
Distance Education: Online Delivery
Prerequisite: MA 131 or equivalent 3-credit hour calculus 1 course and department approval
Corequisite: MA 241
Instructor: Dr. Elisabeth Brown
MA 493 is a 1-hour credit corequisite bridge course for students who have previously earned 3-credit hours of Calculus 1 (MA 131 or equivalent) but need NC State’s MA 141-241-242 calculus sequence due to changes in academic plans: students will enroll in the 8-week 1-credit MA 493 along with any sections of 4-credit MA 241.
For help enrolling, add MA 493 and the desired section(s) of MA 241 to your shopping cart and fill out the info at go.ncsu.edu/MathEnrollment.
MA 493 is a self-paced, bootcamp-style, online, 8-week, fast-paced corequisite course. MA 493 is organized as 16 modules for 16 days of learning:
● First portion of MA 493: designed to prepare students with the advanced prerequisite concepts and skills needed for MA 241. Students will cover topics pertaining to differentiation and integration that are necessary during the first weeks of MA 241 (derivatives and integrals involving trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions, implicit and logarithmic differentiation, and the integration techniques of substitution and integration by parts).
● Second portion of MA 493: designed to introduce topics that may not have been covered in MA 131 but are covered in MA 141. Students will cover applications of differentiation and integration (related rates, L’Hôpital’s Rule, linear approximation, Newton’s method, the Mean Value Theorem, and areas between curves).
● Third portion of MA 493: designed to introduce topics that may not have been covered in MA 131 but are covered in MA 141. Students will use formal definitions to gain insight into limits, continuity, derivatives, and definite integrals.
All learning materials (videos, blank templates, and notes) will be available on the course Moodle page.
Each learning day has an online module, non-graded self-check quiz, and graded homework. A student’s learning completion progress is visually represented in the MA 493 Road Map at the top of the course Moodle page. As a student completes the Online Module, Self-Check, and Graded Homework for each day, a colored icon for each component is earned. By completing a Graded Homework on-time, a student will earn a special version of the icon! There are three tests corresponding to the three portions of the class outlined above.
Course Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
(1) Determine derivatives of complicated functions;
(2) Use varying techniques, including substitution and integration by parts, to evaluate indefinite and definite integrals;
(3) Apply differentiation in diverse contexts to solve problems graphically, symbolically, and numerically;
(4) Set up and solve integration problems in various applications; (5) Write and apply formal limit definitions of calculus concepts; (6) Recall precalculus knowledge to gain insight into limits, derivatives, indefinite and definite integrals.
Spring 2021 First 8-week session: 1-credit
Distance Education: Online Delivery
Prerequisite: MA 131 or equivalent 3-credit hour calculus 1 course and department approval
Corequisite: MA 241
Instructor: Dr. Elisabeth Brown
MA 493 is a 1-hour credit corequisite bridge course for students who have previously earned 3-credit hours of Calculus 1 (MA 131 or equivalent) but need NC State’s MA 141-241-242 calculus sequence due to changes in academic plans: students will enroll in the 8-week 1-credit MA 493 along with any sections of 4-credit MA 241.
For help enrolling, add MA 493 and the desired section(s) of MA 241 to your shopping cart and fill out the info at go.ncsu.edu/MathEnrollment.
MA 493 is a self-paced, bootcamp-style, online, 8-week, fast-paced corequisite course. MA 493 is organized as 16 modules for 16 days of learning:
● First portion of MA 493: designed to prepare students with the advanced prerequisite concepts and skills needed for MA 241. Students will cover topics pertaining to differentiation and integration that are necessary during the first weeks of MA 241 (derivatives and integrals involving trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions, implicit and logarithmic differentiation, and the integration techniques of substitution and integration by parts).
● Second portion of MA 493: designed to introduce topics that may not have been covered in MA 131 but are covered in MA 141. Students will cover applications of differentiation and integration (related rates, L’Hôpital’s Rule, linear approximation, Newton’s method, the Mean Value Theorem, and areas between curves).
● Third portion of MA 493: designed to introduce topics that may not have been covered in MA 131 but are covered in MA 141. Students will use formal definitions to gain insight into limits, continuity, derivatives, and definite integrals.
All learning materials (videos, blank templates, and notes) will be available on the course Moodle page.
Each learning day has an online module, non-graded self-check quiz, and graded homework. A student’s learning completion progress is visually represented in the MA 493 Road Map at the top of the course Moodle page. As a student completes the Online Module, Self-Check, and Graded Homework for each day, a colored icon for each component is earned. By completing a Graded Homework on-time, a student will earn a special version of the icon! There are three tests corresponding to the three portions of the class outlined above.
Course Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
(1) Determine derivatives of complicated functions;
(2) Use varying techniques, including substitution and integration by parts, to evaluate indefinite and definite integrals;
(3) Apply differentiation in diverse contexts to solve problems graphically, symbolically, and numerically;
(4) Set up and solve integration problems in various applications; (5) Write and apply formal limit definitions of calculus concepts; (6) Recall precalculus knowledge to gain insight into limits, derivatives, indefinite and definite integrals.