Math and Coding Camp

Math Camp Day 1

Math and Coding Camp

Coding Camp Day 1

Welcome

  • First Math and Coding Camp in the UTD School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS)
  • Why a Math and Coding Camp?
  • EPPS is a strongly research-oriented school
    • Methodology training
    • Interdisciplinary
    • Data-oriented
    • STEM
  • Free training prepares new cohort for the new semester
  • Lunch provided

The Team

  • Karl Ho, faculty organizer
  • Barua Soni, Prajyna Paramita, instructor
  • Azharul Islam, instructor
  • Shreyas Meher, instructor
  • Dohyo Jeong, instructor
  • Xingyuan Zhao, instructor

Groundrules

  1. Full participation is highly recommended.
    1. This camp is designed for students at different levels of knowledgeability in math and coding.
    2. Team work is critical.
    3. Electronic login for each session.
    4. Hands-on problem solving and coding for all team members. 
  2. Bring your own device
    1. Windows 
    2. Mac
  3. Designed to be highly interactive: full engagement is recommended. 

Schedule structure

  1. Sessions:
    1. Morning
    2. Afternoon
  2. Modules
    1. Six modules daily
    2. Each about 45 minutes 
    3. Lectures
    4. Problem sets
8-Aug 9-Aug 12-Aug 13-Aug 14-Aug
9:00 - 9:15 Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking
9:15 - 10:00 I I I I I
10:00 - 10:45 II II II II II
Break
11:00 - 11:45 III III III III III
12 -2 lunch
2:00 - 2:15 Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking
2:15 - 3:00 IV IV IV IV IV
3:00 - 3:45 V V V V V
Break
4:00 - 4:45 VI VI VI VI VI

Schedule structure

  1. Sessions:
    1. Morning
    2. Afternoon
  2. Modules
    1. Six modules daily
    2. Each about 45 minutes 
    3. Lectures
    4. Problem sets
8-Aug 9-Aug 12-Aug 13-Aug 14-Aug
9:00 - 9:15 Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking
9:15 - 10:00 I I I I I
10:00 - 10:45 II II II II II
Break
11:00 - 11:45 III III III III III
12 -2 lunch
2:00 - 2:15 Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking Ice-breaking
2:15 - 3:00 IV IV IV IV IV
3:00 - 3:45 V V V V V
Break
4:00 - 4:45 VI VI VI VI VI

Math Camp: materials

  1. Multiple sources used to design the two-day training
  2. Mainly based on:

    Moore, W. H. & Siegel, D. A. (2013) A mathematics course for political and social research. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (available online at UTD library)

Math Camp: Day 1

I. Preliminaries (Chapter 1)
II Algebra review (Chapter 2)
III Functions and Relations (Chapter 3)
IV Limit and sequences (Chapter 3 and Chapter 4)
V Differentiation (Chapter 6)
VI Differentiation (Chapter 6)