The course runs on a weekly schedule from Thursday to Thursday, with a new topic each week. This runs slightly ahead of the university week numbering: so, for example, on Thursday of Week 3 the lecture introduces material from “DMP Week 4”, with homework and quizzes, that then runs through a Monday lecture, tutorials, coursework submission, and then on to another Thursday lecture which presents the following topic.
In Week 6 of semester there is no new material but instead a class test covering the first half of the course.
Link: Course Weekly Timetable
| Study Cycle | |
|---|---|
| Thursday | Lecture Study guide, quiz, and homework exercises for the week released |
| Monday | Lecture |
| Tuesday–Thursday | Tutorials |
| Thursday | Deadline for completion of online quiz and submission of written homework |
| Week | Topic | Lectures | Homework | Quiz | Tutorial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Review of sets and logic | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 2 | Elementary number theory and proof methods | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3 | Mathematical induction and recursion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 4 | Set theory and properties of functions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 5 | Properties of relations, modular arithmetic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 6 | Mid-semester class test | Only Thursday | |||
| 7 | Counting, discrete probability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 8 | Discrete random variables, discrete probability distributions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 9 | Continous probability distributions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 10 | Joint probability distributions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 11 | Conditional and limit distributions; Exam preparation | ✓ | ✓ |