Numerical Methods

13-Week Lesson Plan

I teach this course over a 13-week semester, including a midterm covering the first six weeks of material. Each class lasts 1.5 hours (minus 5-10 minutes for taking attendance and perhaps other administrative stuff). Here is an approximate week-by-week progress report:
  1. administrative stuff; Taylor Series: 2 sections (pace: a little rushed)
  2. Taylor Series: finish; Base Representations
  3. Nonlinear Equations
  4. Interpolation and Approximations
  5. Numerical Quadrature: 3+ sections
  6. Numerical Quadrature: finish
  7. Linear Systems: 3+ sections
  8. --> midterm
  9. Linear Systems: finish (including iterative methods); Approximation by Splines: 1+ sections
  10. Approximation by Splines: finish
  11. Ordinary Differential Equations
  12. Least Squares Method
  13. Simulation