DCU Maths Learning Centre
The Maths Learning Centre's role is to provide free extra informal support in a welcoming environment to all undergraduate DCU students taking a mathematics course as part of their degree programme.
The Centre is located in CG10a in the Henry Grattan building. Here you can receive extra one-to-one maths tuition. You can also come along to work on your maths by yourself as you'll have a tutor on hand if you have any questions.
Before visiting the Centre, please read our groundrules:
- You must bring the necessary material to the Centre: lecture notes, tutorial sheets, text books and anything else you can which will help us understand what you are being taught;
- The Centre is not to be used as a substitute for lectures and tutorials;
- If you are stuck on a particular question, you should bring your attempts at this problem to the Centre;
- If you are having difficulties in general with maths, you should attend the Centre regularly and as early in the academic year as possible;
- If you come to the Centre with a mathematical question arising from either project work or a non-mathematics module, the Centre will endeavour to provide assistance.
Timetable for drop-in sessions during semesters
| Day | time |
|---|---|
| Monday | 12.00 - 4.00 |
| Tuesday | 11.00 - 2.00, 4.00 - 6.00 |
| Wednesday | 12.00 - 4.00 |
| Thursday | 11.00 - 2.00, 4.00 - 6.00 |
| Friday | 11.00 - 1.00 |
- *PLEASE NOTE*: the centre is NOT open between 5p.m. and 6p.m. in week 3 and week 4. This slot resumes from week 5.
- Drop-in sessions take place in room CG10a in the Henry Grattan building, during which you can receive one-to-one support with maths, or work through exercises on your own and ask a tutor for help when needed.
- If you need help or advice about using mathtutor, there are two laptops available in the Maths Learning Centre, where you can use the software under supervision.
- The Maths Learning Centre opens on Monday 10th October and closes on Friday 16th December.
- For details of hours available to students registered with the Disability Service, please contact mlc@dcu.ie
Revision sessions
Timetable for revision sessions in January or May will be updated three to four weeks in advance both on this webpage and Moodle
Basic Maths Worksheets
- Calculators
- Fractions
- Algebra 1
- Algebra 2
- Algebra 3
- Indices
- Logarithms
- Functions
- Straight lines
- Derivatives
mathtutor
The Maths Learning Centre has mathtutor, a set of interactive learning resources to help bridge the gap from school to university study, to revise or find the maths topic you missed. Video tutorials, with diagnostics, summary text and exercises, take you through more than eighty topics in the way you choose.
Mathtutor can be accessed in at least four ways:
- It can be accessed from the DCU website, where it is divided into topics:
- It can be viewed in the drop-in centre (CG10a).
- The material on arithmetic and algebra is also available on the PCs located in the Henry Grattan building, the DCU Business School and the Library. To access this material, open up My Computer. Next, go the the I: Drive and open the mathtutor folder. Then open either the arithmetic folder or the algebra folder. Finally to start mathtutor, click on main.html
- It can be found on the mathtutor website.
If you are having any trouble accessing mathtutor or any other questions, please call into the drop-in centre and ask us.
useful links
- Ask Dr.Math. A question and answer service for students studying maths.
- Mathworld. A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia.
- MathTools. Topics such as calculus, algebra and trigonometry explained through various interactive tools.
- S.O.S. Mathematics. A free resource for easy-to-understand explanations on a variety of topics.
- Mathcentre U. K. site which offers many resources, including reference leaflets, teach-yourself booklets, revision booklets, on-line exercises and video tutorials.
