A Remote Tutoring Journey

Activity Log and Experience Summary

A preparation path for university-level mathematics, physics, or engineering for a linguistics high school senior: topics, schedule, and session logs.
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October 12, 2026

Modified

October 13, 2026

Overview

Index and activity log for the university mathematics preparation path. Reference material: Mathematics for High Schools.

Topics & Curriculum

Three main topics: analytic geometry, calculus, and vectors. Other side topics need to be touched for the best understanding of the main topics. Among these: properties of trigonometric and exponential functions, complex numbers.

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1 Euclidean space 1
2 Coordinates to represent space 1
3 Point-point distance 2
4 Lines 2
5 Point-line distance 2
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1 Definition of function, and real function 1
2 Graph of a real function 1
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Session Logs

Date Title Summary Weeks
Oct 28, 2026 Session XXX-03. Crash Introduction to Calculus, Part 3: Ordinary Differential Equations Introduction to ODEs, with examples about 1st and 2nd order linear equations with constant coefficients, that often appear in physics. x
Oct 27, 2026 Session XXX-02. Crash Introduction to Calculus, Part 2: Integrals Graphical introduction to definite integrals as the limit of a Riemann sum. x
Oct 26, 2026 Session 3. Crash Introduction to Calculus, Part 1: Limits and Derivatives Graphical introduction of limits and derivatives, some pathological cases, and the derivative of some fundamental functions. 3
Oct 19, 2026 Session 2. Vector operations. Point distance, lines and conics in the plane Cartesian basis and vector operations, and it’s application in defining lines with a point and a direction. Definition of point-to-point distance in Cartesian plane, and its application to define lines, and (almost every) conics: circles, ellipses, hyperbola. 2
Oct 12, 2026 Session 1. Real Functions, Introduction to Analytical Geometry, and Position Vectors Real functions as the first step in calculus, and their graph in the Cartesian plane, an excuse to recall analytical geometry and introduce vectors. 1
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Notes and Book Corrections

Errors and missing sections discovered during the tutoring sessions are collected in the log entries and fixed in the source repository. If you find any others, please report them on the GitHub repository.