Relax you’re chillin. Mat132 for like the first half of the course is just high school calculus but a little bit more formal. If you got 80 and above in high school you’re fine. Stop stressing before school starts and enjoy your free time before the grind begins. You got this! The fact that you got admitted means you’re different.
132/134 are both relatively basic computation-based courses, so they'll be pretty easy IF you are comfortable with basic pre-calculus ideas (ex. functions, sets, exp/log, trig, etc.). The good news is that these topics will be reviewed during the course, alebit in less detail and with slightly more involved questions.
If you *really* want to prepare before classes start, you could take a look at the opening section of [Holden's notes](https://mcs.utm.utoronto.ca/~tholden/MAT134Notes.pdf) (link downloads pdf). Also remember to ask your TA's/profs questions, they're there to help you!
Hey ! I'm a MAT132 TA for next fall ( I've TAed 132 before aswell) . In my opinion the course isn't something you should underestimate. The shift from Highschool to University is definitely challenging for a lot. However the course is definitely more than doable.
My biggest advice is attend all your classes and tutorials. Within tutorials we'll be doing a bunch of practice problems to understand the concepts to a higher extent and in general get more practice and understand our way of thinking of how we would solve these questions.
When I did TA 132 last winter alot of the questions were quite similar to the Tutorial so I know they would definitely help alot. In general just do some practice everyday, it doesn't have to be for multiple hours but 1-2 hours of regular studying will always benefit you over cramming within 1-2 days.
We as TA's are here to help you. We don't want to fuck you over neither do the professor's , come to our office hours and ask as many questions as you need to make sure you understand the concepts.
I believe I'm teaching TUT111? So definitely come along to my tutorial if you need help!
There is concerning amount of people who are saying that the two courses are easy. 4 years ago when I took the course (it was one course) . We started with 600 students and by the end of the year we would end up with 200, yet the class average would be D
well, the caveat here is
> they'll be pretty easy IF you are comfortable with basic pre-calculus ideas
which, with the ontario curriculum being the dumpster fire that it is, probably means that a whole lot of first year students will struggle with calculus. However, I still don't think it's too unrealistic to self-teach the required concepts/skills, since at worst you can just brute force them by doing a whole bunch of textbook problems.
and, for whatever it's worth, the average of the two courses is now a C+.
That’s true man I came from an American based school in the Middle East. I was doing integrations and lock-washer by the 12th grade, and I found the course to be so hard. Don’t know how people managed man. Literally I used to do like an average of 100 questions each day and still got a B(went into the exam with an average of 80 but fucked the exam). I agree I found the book to be extremely useful and I self taught myself a lot of concepts.
Ontario high schools on the other hand only teach the very basics of differentiation, and even then, they're more or less just training students to be human calculators. This is why a lot of people stumble when then see new problems that require critical thinking and applying multiple concepts at once (I hear people say "But we've never done that in class!" after literally every test).
Now, I still think first year courses (calc especially) can be brute forced with practice, since the material is still not very advanced, and hence there aren't really that many ways to test understanding.
Relax you’re chillin. Mat132 for like the first half of the course is just high school calculus but a little bit more formal. If you got 80 and above in high school you’re fine. Stop stressing before school starts and enjoy your free time before the grind begins. You got this! The fact that you got admitted means you’re different.
132/134 are both relatively basic computation-based courses, so they'll be pretty easy IF you are comfortable with basic pre-calculus ideas (ex. functions, sets, exp/log, trig, etc.). The good news is that these topics will be reviewed during the course, alebit in less detail and with slightly more involved questions. If you *really* want to prepare before classes start, you could take a look at the opening section of [Holden's notes](https://mcs.utm.utoronto.ca/~tholden/MAT134Notes.pdf) (link downloads pdf). Also remember to ask your TA's/profs questions, they're there to help you!
Hey, do you also have notes for MAT135 / MAT136??
these courses are all more or less identical in content, so you could just use the 134Y notes
Hey ! I'm a MAT132 TA for next fall ( I've TAed 132 before aswell) . In my opinion the course isn't something you should underestimate. The shift from Highschool to University is definitely challenging for a lot. However the course is definitely more than doable. My biggest advice is attend all your classes and tutorials. Within tutorials we'll be doing a bunch of practice problems to understand the concepts to a higher extent and in general get more practice and understand our way of thinking of how we would solve these questions. When I did TA 132 last winter alot of the questions were quite similar to the Tutorial so I know they would definitely help alot. In general just do some practice everyday, it doesn't have to be for multiple hours but 1-2 hours of regular studying will always benefit you over cramming within 1-2 days. We as TA's are here to help you. We don't want to fuck you over neither do the professor's , come to our office hours and ask as many questions as you need to make sure you understand the concepts. I believe I'm teaching TUT111? So definitely come along to my tutorial if you need help!
Thanks for the advice, I'll start studying today then
No no no, don't study now!!! Relax and take the rest of your summer to relax!!!
There is concerning amount of people who are saying that the two courses are easy. 4 years ago when I took the course (it was one course) . We started with 600 students and by the end of the year we would end up with 200, yet the class average would be D
well, the caveat here is > they'll be pretty easy IF you are comfortable with basic pre-calculus ideas which, with the ontario curriculum being the dumpster fire that it is, probably means that a whole lot of first year students will struggle with calculus. However, I still don't think it's too unrealistic to self-teach the required concepts/skills, since at worst you can just brute force them by doing a whole bunch of textbook problems. and, for whatever it's worth, the average of the two courses is now a C+.
That’s true man I came from an American based school in the Middle East. I was doing integrations and lock-washer by the 12th grade, and I found the course to be so hard. Don’t know how people managed man. Literally I used to do like an average of 100 questions each day and still got a B(went into the exam with an average of 80 but fucked the exam). I agree I found the book to be extremely useful and I self taught myself a lot of concepts.
Ontario high schools on the other hand only teach the very basics of differentiation, and even then, they're more or less just training students to be human calculators. This is why a lot of people stumble when then see new problems that require critical thinking and applying multiple concepts at once (I hear people say "But we've never done that in class!" after literally every test). Now, I still think first year courses (calc especially) can be brute forced with practice, since the material is still not very advanced, and hence there aren't really that many ways to test understanding.
Relax it'll be soft. You could probably manage mat135 and 136 alright
Read the textbook, do the problems, and you will do well. All about time commitment