hi there and welcome to this website my name is David Hodge I've created these
pages for you to help you learn the stuff that would otherwise be covered in
engineering maths - I mean preparation for your criteria apprentice the fact
you've got this far for me means you've already found how to log into the
website and gets the right page so that's all very good what's here it's
basic lots of materials which are designed to help you learn
so obviously the setup is that it's primarily for you to learn the materials
yourself obviously I'm creating stuff you can work through and have a look at
but its primary self study together with support provided through the site so
there'll be a discussion forum I mentioned in a minute and other ways to
contact me if you need to I strongly recommend that you use the discussion
forum to ask questions it's quite rich you can embed pictures and other stuff
like that if you want to ask questions that way but you'll be asking lots of
questions and no doubt other students in the same position if you've got almost
identical questions or very similar questions and all they'll learn from
your questions so please do use that a formal I'll respond to questions on the
forum to help you learn so if you're ever in doubt then just ask I'm not here
to judge you and I have to test you really I'm here primarily to help you
learn the stuff you should do a few things you should first read the content
try exercises try some more exercises then reflect a little bit on what you've
learnt don't dive straight into trying to see if you know it because you you
weren't really test if you know it yet until you've given it a couple of days
to see if it's gone in and then later on down the line a few days after you think
you've learned the topic have a go at some testing questions so hopefully I
should be able to transition to show you picture of me in the corner there's me
and this is the site you'll get to once you're logged in so you're probably
already here let me do a quick demo just what's on this site here so there's a
welcome message here do click this and have a look at the Welcome message input
this is the video which is already looking at the discussion forum which is
the key place I might adapt this slightly if you find it's easy to break
it into more than one but for now this discussion forum which is click here see
what happens so it was new window and then there's some text here but
basically you can type a response to this box so use this to ask
questions let's close that for now okay so the main content is in this section
here called main course materials so I'll just show you what's inside here
key thing is to read the thing that says read first this tells you how to use
these materials this is my advice on how you use these materials primarily put
certain things in bold use a pen and paper when you're working through things
the syllabus learning plan is the key document so I'll tell you something
about that now so this is the key document the syllabus learning plan
there are three sections to the material the trigonometry section and
differentiation section and an integration section and you can toggle
them on and off with these buttons if I click all three they're all disappear
I click just trigonometry the trigonometry has got three sections in
and the title is here at the top if you go to differentiation there's five
sections and if I go into integration there's three sections again and in each
section I have selected for you or provided links to some particularly
useful content so each of these topics has been discussed in many places before
this page is signposting you to excellent resources online where you can
go read about that topic so you can see at the top I've put key I strongly recommend you
pick one of either the HELM course notes or the Khan Academy notes or the Math
Centre notes in each topic so pick one of the different sources and work
through the materials so you'll see in the second section here I reckon I
strongly recommend either the HELM course notes on trig identities or the
bottom if you use the Math Centre notes I recommend both these two links here so
for each topic pick one and have a look through that obviously I put more than
one which means that if you get stuck with one where you don't like the layout
or you don't like the way it's being done by all means read another one and
have a look but you don't need to read more than one of the three star items in
(I wasn't clear, but do read more than one three-star if they are from the same source! e.g. in MathCentre Section 2)
a given section jumping back out of is assembling pages so for each topic
there's also a Summary Page so my recommendation will be that for each topic you first
click on the summary page and if i zoom in slightly you'll see this is a one
page PDF in which the key points the objectives
and the links again are provided there's one of these for each of the topics so
this is probably the best way to start for any given topic is have a look at
the title look at the Summary Page and then come back and choose which topic
you'd like to do okay I'll close that for a moment the other
thing that's in here is the progress checklist I would normally print this
out and give it to you but I can't in this case so what this is if I zoom in
slightly for all the topics on the previous page on the syllabus and the
[revision] learning plan I've put two questions for each topic one is a an introductory
question basic question one is a more complex question which is designed to
help you go through and see your progress as you're getting along so
potentially print this out or just make some notes on some paper keep track of
how well you're getting on which bits you think you've now done and you'll see
in the topic code up matched them up with the previous page and you'll see for each of
the (sections) there's three five and then three so for each of the thirteen topics there's two
questions sort of a basic question and then a more complex question this is
more about helping you judge what your level is that again it's there to help
you progress through the work okay that's the end of the main section
there's a very similar section here on pre course revision so if I
open the revision learning plan a similar page here this has got four
topics in and these topics are topics which are kind of prerequisites which is
assumed to some level you're very comfortable with but obviously if you
don't feel comfortable or would like a bit of revision then by all means come
into here there's one topic on powers and indices of course powers are indices
it's just another name for them one section on algebra rearranging equations
transpositions one on simplification and factorization and then finally one on
trigonometric functions so sine cosine and tan just while I'm here if you look
at this first column sometimes one of the sources I chose the Khan Academy
notes doesn't have a brilliant source I would recommend for you on that topic so
I've written no specific recommendation from that
so obviously there's always at least two in any given section for resources that
I suggest you go and have a look at okay if I return now back to here there's one
more thing in this section which is also with the revision section just to get
you totally started there's these try at having questions so these are on the
same topic as the revision topics have a read of this text here basically it says
I'm not testing you this is entirely for you to help you judge what kind of
revision you might want to do so there's a question that's a basic question on
simpli.. on powers and simplifying powers there is a more complex question on
powers then there's a simple question on algebra and then a more complex question
and algebra and then there's more algebra sections but there's essentially
a basic kind of complex question in each of the topics for which there's a
revision section so that you can look at this question and from this you could
gauge whether you want to go into a little bit of a vision on that topic
first there should be a one on the bottom here that's on triangle... there we go
trigonometry so that's the end of the revision section there's a mini course
library so this will complement the main course materials as we come to them I
won't say much about it now but mainly in here what you're going to find is
I'll put some extra resources that will go with the topics that are inside this
syllabus learning plan after you've had a go so after you've picked the topic
after you've read about the topic and you've tried exercises and you've tried
the the sheets inside here and you think you understand the topic a couple of days
later I'll recommend you go and have a go at the the mini course my only final
request for you is probably to have a look at here see I've got a snazzy
picture of myself here I recommend it's quite nice to have a profile picture you
should be able to click... you close this down here in when you click on your name
here you should be able to come back in and set yourself a picture so have a go
at that the introductory email I have sent you should also encourage you to send me
an email so that we can have a meet up fairly early on so that I can get to say
say hello to you in person and check that you've settled in alright I think
that's enough for this welcome video mostly just enjoy yourselves and I'll
speak to you again soon