Maths Degree Q&A // Advice for Studying Maths at University
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2019
- I'm here to answer all your burning questions about studying maths at uni. Is it as difficult as people say? Do you need to take Further Maths at A Level? What do you do when you can't answer a question? I share my tips for getting high grades in your maths degree
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Definitely wishing I'd seen your videos before I started my degree; I never heard anyone mentioning the jump from A level and STEP to university level and I was nowhere close to prepared
Omg, I did not expect to see my favourite maths youtubers in one place
oh lawd oh lawd I was sooooo unprepared. OMG the class was called "intro to algebra and calculus" THEY MEANT LINEAR ALGEBRA. Step 1 of the class was "know algebra"....I was sooooooo screwed.
I just finished my first year studying maths at uni and I’ve found your videos so helpful. I really relate to what you’re saying! Thank you so much. I was 3% away from a first! I’m looking forward to starting my second year.
Where do you go? How did you do further maths?
That was really helpful thanks Beth!
This was a great video! I start my 1st year studying maths at Durham at the end of the month so this was so so useful!
How do you like it? I am starting this October but I haven't found anyone who studied Maths in Durham so far
@@danielkozak2780 I'm going to be studying maths at Durham this year too (if I get the grades tho lol)
Loved this video. I'm going into second year of my maths degree and I'm excited. Was interesting to see your perspective of your degree 😊
Please tell me,is it too much hard,like is it like math at high scholl,can you go to that college if u are not talented for math but you like,like i lkve it and know it but i never knowed math on te compatitions.I'm not too god at Eng,please answer🙂
Are you in any way related to John Hopkinson?
Yes! I’m researching graph theory this summer!!😄
Yesss!! Thank you so much!! I start maths a level in 6 days and I’m so excited, it’s my favourite subject 💗
A level is do easy to be fair
Yayy I start maths at Southampton in 2 weeks
Just so you know, the writing down method you described and the underlying aren’t the best for learning. Look into it. There’s a Cambridge doctor called Ali who has a bunch of videos on effective learning methods, based on what the science has found out. Learning deeply is best done by test yourself and spacing this out over a longer period of time. So turning what you want to remember into a question instead and then at intervals attempting to recall your definition would be more effective. This retrieval process is key to initiating the type of deep learning and memory development. The harder your brain has to work to either process or recall anything, the longer you’ll retain the understanding and information. A good book on this is: Make it Stick: The science of successful learning
Loved it
I'm currently at the end of my Masters degree in maths in Germany and I can 100% relate to all the answers you gave. But I need to say that I'm definitely on the applied maths team, stochastics is my one and only love.
Thank you very much for this video, it's really nice to see someone talking about the same experiences that I made. And I'm very relieved to see that I'm not the only one struggling to answer the "what can you do with a maths degree?" question, haha :D
lots of love from Germany
I'm going into my second year of a maths degree in the UK but I'm hopefully going to be studying abroad in Germany next year, do you have any advice for choosing a German university? Thanks! x
@@kasterborouskitten I don't know much about other universities in Germany. I'm doing my degree at the KIT in Karlsruhe and I really enjoy it. Our uni does have high standards, but also a very good reputation all over Germany and also internationally.
In general I think that the universities in southern Germany are a bit better or at least have a better reputation. You should definitely check out which courses the universities offer since this differs very much.
At our uni there are many courses held in English, that could also be an advantage if you aren't fluently in German language.
I hope that you get the chance to spend some time in Germany and wish you good luck in finding the right uni and for the application process!
Do you know if it's neccesary a bachelors in math to persue a masters degree in math? Or any major with enough maths in the course can persue a masters?
Thanks this was really helpful
I mean, to be fair to social sciences degrees, if you’re going to do well you need to take the time to really understand your subject before you sit down to write your essays. I still think a maths degree would be harder, at least for me because I’m not great at maths, but by the time in my degree I sit down to write my essay, I have to have really spent a lot of time understanding my topic
haha currently watching this video to prograstinate and then you tell me you favorite part of your degree was graph theory... now i feel caught and need to continue writing my bachelor thesis which has to do with graph theory:D
Good video.
My son wants,and can, do a dual degree in maths-physics (in my days they where at loggerheads with each other, lol). In your experience do you think its a wise idea?
i’m in my first year for math major too 🤗
Impressive; ...I’ve watched several of your previous videos and there I learned that you settled on Math & Spanish. ‘Now’, I’m finding out that (a) you dropped Spanish, but not what you picked up to replace Spanish {or, ‘did’ you add any non-math subject to replace the Spanish}-? And, (b) I’m doubly impressed that you focused on ‘pure’ Math (( did you do anything with Kurt Gödel & his Incompleteness Theorems; i.e. Logic ))-?
Yes!! It just meant I did more Maths modules instead. It was definitely the right decision for me! Nope I never studied the incompleteness theorems
I’m going to do maths with stats at uni and I’m just wondering what devices you used at uni. How many modules can you get by by just using pen and paper and do you think with maths and stats it is 100% necessary to have an iPad or laptop? I feel like with online notifications from the uni and looking up stuff related to the course I’ll be fine with my phone as I always have been.
It depends on your course but you’ll probably have to use computer programs at some point. Certain modules, especially stats ones, will require use of R. You’ll definitely need access to a computer at some point but worth checking whether the uni library has computers you can use (I’m sure they do!) if you don’t want to buy your own. Most other stuff you can get by with your phone + pen and paper; although I must admit id find it a bit less convenient. Hope that helps!
Hi there!
Firstly, I also loved Graph Theory, and now have a PhD in the field.
Some very interesting points there.
Totally agree maths (and sciences) have lots of contact hours in comparison to arty subjects.
Past papers are always very good. When I was at university (at Sheffield), my tutors would often have a session going through a past paper. The one other point I would mention is that it may be the case that one does not have to attempt all of the questions, and can choose. If this is the case, one can afford to discard part of the syllabus - though of course, do have some idea which questions you will attempt.
For careers, you gave some good examples. A maths degree is one of the more useful ones. Though I would also mention Data Science. This can be applied in the financial, healthcare, business, and several other fields, and is all very mathematical (statistical in particular).
You mentioned the number of seconds in an hour, when you were 5 years ago. Have you taken the opportunity to be good at arithmetic as well? Amazing how many mathematicians cannot calculate!
One last point, please could you say ‘multiplying by’ as opposed to ‘timesing by’!
Looks like someone has a superiority complex
I agree with Data Science as a career path. A growing number of my maths degree cohort now work in the data science field
Pure math is applicable too. Graduates with pure math focus can go to any career that other STEM graduates go to. Unless you are teaching or researching pure math, you would have to apply your math skill to real world problems. I can't think of a company or a government department which would hire people to do pure math only for the sake of it.
Going into a combined stem degree at the OU at 40 hoping to study mainly maths and physics. This si my second degree after nursing and I’m terrified as I was really bad at maths in the 90s but I wanted to make peace with them
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Its very informative .😊 make more helping videos. Can you tell me how we calculate our gpa . I am from India and I secured 72 % in my 2nd year of uni . Is this consider in first class or there is some another method to calculate ?
Above 70% is a first in the UK!
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What is the cons of pursuing a math course?
Just wondering, have you done any courses in uni that require matlab?
Yes! I did an optimisation module where we used it and I also used it for my big project
@@TheKingBeth oooh sounds interesting! I've had to use matlab for a few computational mathematics courses involving eulers method and a bit of monte carlo approximation stuff. I'd say during my maths/statisitcs deg, my favourite courses so far have been complex analysis, linear algebra, linear models and differential eq.
How did you feel about the fact that there are much more boys than girls in a math degree ? I'm starting my math degree in September 2020 in France and when I visited the classes there weren't many girls :/
ah i didn't think i was gonna do maths at uni and now in year 12 i want to do it but i don't do further maths - i'll just go cry in the corner
Don’t let it put you off! So many people don’t do further maths but go on to study maths at uni. You can always self teach a few topics from the syllabus or maybe consider taking the AS during year 13? I know people who did that too! X
@@TheKingBeth thank you for the reply i feel a bit better now about it and hopefully i will still do maths at uni :)
I’m in my final year(3rd year) and I’m about to graduate with a science degree majoring in maths and stats at UNSW. What worries me is that some of my courses don’t have past papers and it’s much harder to prepare for them, wondering if that’s because maybe they recycle papers for each year😂😂😂. Idk about others but Ive had to change my studying methods this year. Rather than just doing all the tutorial and practise exam qs, I’ve started to revise lecture note examples and it has helped me quite a bit.
It’s so frustrating when there are no papers available! Thanks for the tip about lecture note examples, that’s a great idea 🙌🏼
I am really lost because I am a third year and I haven't done any internships or researchs. Like I don't even have any experience at all. I've been working as a cashier since my freshman year and it is not helping with this major at all. I am so scared. Like i love mathematics but I suck at them. I need advices but i don't know anyone to ask. 🥺😭
@Mehdi Haned definitely ask the pears lol
I wanted to do a math channel but i wonder if youtube is still clunky or not(youtube locking peoples channel into kids content and not being able to change it)
do it !!! i know the way the new regulations are being enforced is annoying but it seems to be a luck thing about whether your channel is affected or not
What jobs can you do if you get a maths degree?
Actuary, teacher, financial analyst -, to name a few
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Hey A level students you're just not going to be prepared. I'd advise you to get used to proofs in the summer you have off.
Freaking angry birds ;). Very useful video.
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You're so lucky you only had 4 modules a semester I have 5 😭
Loved this video. I'm going into second year of my maths degree and I'm excited. Was interesting to see your perspective of your degree 😊
Where do you go? How did you find first year and what did you get?
@@zetch972 I'm at Newcastle University. I really enjoyed first year, it was hard at times but overall it was good. I ended up getting 75.6% which is a first!!
Katie Hopkinson did you do further maths btw? Well done for a fantastic result!
@@zetch972 thankyou. I did further maths but I taught myself it. I have friends on my course who didn't od further maths but have done well too