I’d go out on a limb and recommend steering clear of the 7-week intensive unless Calculus is your sole purpose in life for that time period.įor me, the pace was torrid. That might be true for more recent graduates I spent closer to 15–20 hours a week. I chose the former, for which Outlier suggests committing 10 hours per week to study. There are two options: the 14-week regular offering, and a 7-week intensive. Only the highest score counted towards your final grade. Quiz - Time to prove what you’ve learned! You were allowed a total of 5 quiz attempts per section 3 versions were available immediately, and subsequent versions unlocked when each of the two midterms became available.Practice Exercises - Here, you have a chance to work through problems that will be quite similar to those found on the quiz.For the most part, it expanded on content covered in the videos, usually with worked examples (not nearly enough, in my opinion).
Active Learning - This is the textbook-like portion of the course.
You don’t have to watch all 3 to progress to the Active Learning. Each section has three, pre-recorded lectures, one from each of the three instructors. Lecture - Video lectures ranging between 8–30 minutes.Guesswork - Questions are asked that are meant to be an intuitive preview of the topic.I downloaded the syllabus and took a look at the curriculum:Įach chapter is broken down further into sections (shown above), with each section having the following components: I installed Slack, which was the preferred means of communication between students and TA’s within the cohort. First ImpressionsĪfter some initial onboarding, I gained access to the interface, which I thought was quite modern. Passing that was the final barrier - I was in. As a final hurdle, I did have to take a prerequisite algebra test. The decision was made when I received a frontline worker’s scholarship for any of Outlier’s course offerings. Now, I could self-study using Khan Academy (which helped quite a bit - more on that later), but I also like the appeal of receiving formal college credit, should I eventually pursue a Master’s degree. This was the primary driving factor behind me tackling Calculus. Over the past year, I’ve become quite interested in Machine Learning, and the more I explore, the more I discover that Calculus plays an integral role in the discipline. It’s been more than a decade (ouch) since I participated in any formal math course. This is a personal review of the program’s strengths, weaknesses, and my overall impression. The default should always be to include the data and only remove if we are certain that it was an error or is measuring something very different than we intended.I recently completed Outlier’s Calculus course. The most important thing, though, is that students are not under the impression that data should be thrown out just because it’s different and doesn’t match what we want. If we are sure it is a typo, or the value is under significantly different conditions that don’t fit the situation at hand, we might leave it out. Highlight that a value should be left in the analysis if it was collected accurately and in the right conditions for the situation at hand or if we are unsure of why it is different. What are some circumstances that might increase Andre’s hiking time to 130 minutes and would make it reasonable to include in his mean time for the race?” (If the weather was bad or if he was injured, Andre’s time might be much longer and could also affect his race time, so he might consider including the value in his calculation of mean.) “Even if Andre’s grandfather did not come with him on the hike, there are reasons it might take Andre 130 minutes to complete the hike.Should he include the 130-minute data point in the mean time it takes him to hike the mountain? Explain your reasoning.” (He should not include the time in his calculation of mean since he will probably not be running the race with his grandfather.)
Point out that the mean changes so much because 130 minutes is significantly greater than all the other values. They may wonder why the mean changed so drastically with only 1 new data point, and (if their estimate was wrong) why the mean changes in a way that’s different from what they thought would happen.) (Students may notice that the mean significantly increases when Andre’s grandfather goes on the hike, and that their estimate was likely inaccurate. Ask students what they notice and wonder about the mean values related to whether Andre’s grandfather goes on the hike with him or not.
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