interesting (and hard) maths courses in uni?? (1 Viewer)

[liamkk112]

something to note and this might just be a unsw thing but math in uni tbh is rly diff to hs because of the pacing and assessment format - its really hard to grasp concepts to a deeper understanding and is rather encouraged to just "cheese" the subject by rote learning methods and brushing over harder concepts that are sackable. i hear many tutors say that they had no understanding of the course until after they had finished it lol

i've had the exact opposite experience, at uni i feel like i learned stuff way deeper than in high school. in hs half the questions are number crunching, whereas the majority of the questions in the units i've done have been proof based so there's no real rote learning or brushing over concepts (exception: the first year courses that are calculation heavy). plus, the content has been way more abstract and interesting, with more focus on proving big theorems rather than applying them endlessly. might be different in actl and other branches though, majority of my classes have been in "pure" category except for probability theory

100% agree that stats is way more interesting in uni though. even if you just do the computational part of it rather than some of the deeper theory, you still get to do much more interesting stuff. hypothesis testing seems like the actual reason that stats is useful and i'm suprised we never talked about it in high school...

 

[barnyard]

i've had the exact opposite experience, at uni i feel like i learned stuff way deeper than in high school. in hs half the questions are number crunching, whereas the majority of the questions in the units i've done have been proof based so there's no real rote learning or brushing over concepts (exception: the first year courses that are calculation heavy). plus, the content has been way more abstract and interesting, with more focus on proving big theorems rather than applying them endlessly. might be different in actl and other branches though, majority of my classes have been in "pure" category except for probability theory

what degree do you do if you dont mind me asking

 

[liamkk112]

what degree do you do if you dont mind me asking

i’m doing a bachelor of adv science (research) in pure math and stats at monash atm. but i was doing a bachelor of mathematical sciences at uts before, similarly majoring in pure math

 

[Legendary16]

i’m doing a bachelor of adv science (research) in pure math and stats at monash atm. but i was doing a bachelor of mathematical sciences at uts before, similarly majoring in pure math

Oh I have been thinking of swapping to bachelor of science (math) in UTS, so how did you find it during your time there?

 

[liamkk112]

Oh I have been thinking of swapping to bachelor of science (math) in UTS, so how did you find it during your time there?

i liked it quite a bit, i think the classes are well run, one thing is that the curriculum is a bit weird compared to some of the other unis (like some honours level classes at most unis are 2nd year at uts, but then there’s some classes that uts doesn’t even touch on in undergrad). but there’s an elective that lets u take honours level courses in undergrad, so i’d recommend doing the “modern algebra” honours course using that as that’ll basically make the curriculum the same as other unis
but besides that quirk it’s pretty solid and i had good opportunities there, even managed to work on a research project as a first year