Math Skills Training and Seminars

Working with Numbers Learn how to work with numbers successfully Anyone who's "good with figures" uses various tips and tricks to make numbers easier to work with. Working with Numbers concentrates on useful short cuts rather than "classroom theory" that underlies many everyday activities.  more...

Introduction to Coordinate Systems The purpose of this course is to give a rudimentary explanation of various coordinate systems used to describe points in space and to describe coordinate transformations. A coordinate transformation is a tool to describe a location in space who is using a different coordinate system. This introduces some of the basic mathematical tools, namely matrix algebra, that is often used in coordinate  more...

Introduction to Differential Equations This is the first in a series of short courses on differential equations. The purpose of this course is to introduce some of the concepts and terminology associated with differential equations.  more...

Least Squares Line Fits This course covers the topic of finding a "best fit" line through a set of data. This course assumes some basic understanding of uncertainty analysis, differential calculus, and statistics. The calculus required is minimal, primarily the concept of derivative and finding the minimum of a function.  more...