Tutoring

There are many opportunities to tutor mathematics, including working for the Learning Center to tutor HU students as well as working for yourself tutoring students from the community in elementary, middle school, or high school mathematics.  Tutoring provides a valuable service opportunity, and gives you practice in explaining mathematical ideas to other people.  Our graduates have mentioned that this is one way to get more practice in communicating mathematics.

Credit by Examination

If you have completed a year of calculus in high school, there are a couple of ways in which you may earn credit by examination.  First, there is the CLEP exam in Calculus.  If you pass it, you have credit for MA 171 (our first semester of calculus).

Second, if you scored a 3, 4, 5 on the AP calculus test (AB version), then you have credit for MA 171, and half of MA 172.  We have a departmental review packet and test for the second half of MA 172.  This deals with advanced techniques of integration, sequences and infinite series.  Successful completion of this exam results in credit for the last 2 hours in MA 172.

Finally, if you scored a 3, 4, 5 on the AP calculus test (BC version), then you have credit for MA 171, and all of MA 172.