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Important dates for 2011

Application Materials due   April 15, 2011 Fast Track begins Sunday, July 17, 2011, at noon Fast Track ends Friday, August 19, 2011, at noon

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What is Fast-Track Calculus?

Fast-Track Calculus is an intensive five-week course intended for outstanding students who have had one year of calculus and analytic geometry in high school. In these five weeks, Fast-Track students review differential and integral calculus, cover all of multivariable calculus, and become familiar with the computer implementation of mathematics. Successful completion of Fast-Track Calculus means that the normal 15 hours of freshman calculus is complete. The student receives 15 hours of academic credit, and is able to enter Sophomore-level mathematics courses as a freshman.

You get credit for Calculus I, II, and III in just five weeks. All this before the fall quarter starts. With the credit hours you gain, you can take higher-level courses or get a head start on a minor, double major or graduate school.

Fast Track - a Modern Approach to Calculus

The students of FTC will use the classrooms which have been networked to accommodate the use of the laptop computers which all Freshman students will have. The students will be issued their laptop computers during the first day of FTC. They will be given instructions in the use and care of their new laptops, including an introduction to the soft-ware provided. During FTC, the Maple software package will be used as an integral part of the course. This symbolic algebra system allows one to obtain exact solutions to problems in differentiation and integration, to solve algebraic and differential equations, to graph families of functions, to expand functions in series, etc. -- all in the traditional form, but without the usually excessive paper-and-pencil manipulations.