Warm-Up Week (other)
Select your study programme hereIf you feel like you could use some help in getting your mathematics skills up to speed, you can join our Warm-Up Week from 18 to 22 August 2025. You will train and practise with all topics in our Mathematics Practice Book from Monday to Friday between (approximately) 8:30 and 17:15 on campus in Nijmegen. If you have any questions about the Warm-Up Week after reading the information below or if you would like to participate, you are always welcome to contact me on Koen.vanAsseldonk@ru.nl.
A typical day of the warm-up week looks like this:
- We start in the early morning (usually at 8:30 so you get used to your future daily routine) with a plenary lecture on the 'topic of the day'. I guide you through the essentials of this topic, mainly by discussing a variety of examples with you and demonstrating some important mathematical techniques, occasionaly showing you a math-related meme which I find funny (and you might too 😄) but also carries an important message.
- After the lecture, you go to your tutorial room together with 20 to 40 other students. Here, you are working on selected exercises from the Mathematics Practice Book, both individually and in small groups, under the expert guidance of my team of teaching assistants, who are students themselves and are well equipped to explain the theory to you in various 'student-friendly' ways. They stimulate and challenge you to work on those exercises suitable for you and they are eager to answer all of your questions.
- After lunch, you do a math-related group activity in your tutorial group. This activity lets you think in a different way about today's topic and experience that mathematics, although at times daunting, is a way of thinking that all of you can learn to do with confidence. You will get to know other students a bit better while still working on getting a better math understanding and warming up for the start of your studies.
- The rest of the day is reserved for working on the remaining exercises, discussing problems and solutions with your fellow students and TAs, and having a casual chat every now and then if you want to. Towards the end of the day, an online self-test becomes available where you can test your mastery of the 'topic of the day'. If you obtain a nice score, you are rightfully done for the day. Not satisfied with your score yet? Just practise a bit more, ask your TA for specific suggestions, and try the self-test again to improve your score.
