Assess your math skills, review fundamental knowledge, and earn a bonus mark in your first-year math courses all at your own pace!
MATH4U is a specially designed math refresher resource for first-year students entering degree programs at Carleton with a math component. Starting August 1st gain access to a multitude of review and diagnostic resources which will help build a strong base of mathematics knowledge, study techniques to help approach subject material, and confidence as you enter first-year university math courses. Participation in this program ensures that students have the building blocks they need to participate and succeed in math-intensive university programs and their first year math courses!
What is Covered in MATH4U?
Material is split up based on Faculty to allow students to cater their review to their specific needs. The lectures will cover a variety of basics such as:
- Algebra (basic algebra, intervals, and simplifying algebraic expressions)
- Equations (solving equations and inequalities, special formulas)
- Graphs
- Transcendental functions
- Trigonometry
Earn a Bonus Mark in Your First Year Calculus Course!
In addition to gauging your math comprehension, completing the 1% Bonus Quiz within MATH4U will earn you a 1% bonus mark in all your fall and winter first-year Carleton math course! To qualify for this 1% bonus you are only required to complete the 1% Bonus Quiz within the module that best describes your major (Science and Engineering, Business and Economics, or Physics and Engineering-Physics). You will have until Tuesday, September 24th at 11:59 EDT to complete this quiz and qualify for the bonus mark. We highly recommend completing these quizzes as 1% can make a significant difference in your final grade. Additionally, these diagnostic quizzes will help you identify the math concepts you may wish to review early in your first year MATH courses, while guiding you to the corresponding MATH4U modules you can use to review these concepts. See the course Brightspace page for more details.
Accessing MATH4U
All incoming 1st year undergraduate students with a math component (Faculty of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Sprott School of Business and Faculty of Public Affairs) to their program and all students registered in a fall or winter 1000 level MATH course will be automatically enrolled on Brightspace for access to free, pre-recorded lectures and knowledge evaluation tests that cover math fundamentals. This program will be available starting Thursday, August 1, 2024. If you would like access to the material and do not have first year standing or do not fall under the faculties listed above, please email sssc [at] carleton.ca.
Getting help with MATH4U
Having trouble accessing MATH4U or have questions about the program? Please direct all questions to the program organizer, the Science Student Success Centre. You can reach us via email at sssc [at] carleton.ca, phone at (613) 520-2600 x3111, or in person in our offices at 3431 Herzberg Laboratories, Carleton University. Our office is open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm. You can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter or contact us using any of the methods outlined here.