Department of Mathematics

Programs Offered

1. BS Mathematics

Objective (BS Mathematics)

The BS scheme of studies aims to establish the base for lifelong education by creating essential concepts and equipping the student with necessary techniques, needed to start a career of research, development, teaching or financial applications involving mathematics.

Department of mathematics goals for the BS degree are expressed by the following core attributes we seek for BS graduates in our program:

1. Graduates will be able to approach challenging problems using a variety of mathematical problem solving skills and methods. They will be able to work with learners to encourage and effectively guide the emergence and growth of their own problem solving abilities.
2. Graduates will competently engage in mathematical reasoning. They will be able to construct and evaluate mathematical arguments, both formal and informal, and they will have an appreciation for mathematical rigor and mathematical inquiry.
3. Graduates will be skilled in communicating their mathematical thinking to peers, faculty, and others, in a variety of means. They will be able to fully participate in mathematical discourse by listening to, and respecting, the ideas of others as well as by communicating their own questions and understandings. They will seek to encourage and guide the development of mathematical communication, in this same sense, in their own classrooms.
4. Graduates will recognize through their own experiences of learning mathematics how they, and others, have built and utilized rich connections among mathematical ideas. They will emphasize in their own classrooms, on their own students, the importance of building useful, connected understanding.
5. Graduates will skillfully use various ways of representing mathematical ideas, including verbal, graphical, numerical, symbolic, to support and deepen mathematical understandings. They will seek to support, and build on the diversity of representations that their students find useful in their own thinking.
6. Graduates will adopt technology as an essential tool for thoughtfully teaching, learning, doing and understanding important mathematics.
7. Graduates will have a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles underlying the school mathematics curriculum and how these principles connect to cognition. This includes a rich, fundamentally grounded understanding of numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, calculus, probability, and statistics.
8. Graduates will be able to recognize (and design) and use mathematically rich tasks as central pieces in building an instructional practice that focuses on developing and using detailed knowledge of learners work and thinking.
9. Graduates will appreciate that working effectively with students to build mathematical understanding must be grounded in understanding student thinking, as seen through student discourse and use of various representations, as they engage in mathematical practice.
10. Graduates will have a clear understanding of the many facets of a teacher work in secondary mathematics classrooms, and the skills to work comfortably in that environment. These skills and understandings will be built and supported by rich field experiences in the public schools.
11. Graduates will have the skills necessary to observe and to reflect, with care, on how important mathematics can be taught and learned. Students will learn this skill as they are brought into the profession through carefully designed mentored research experiences with faculty.

Eligibility

The applicants must have studied Mathematics in Intermediate and secured at least 45% marks in it.

Scheme of Study

BS (Hons) in Mathematics: 4-Year Program

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Science in Mathematics program is designed to provide students extensive knowledge and skills in Applied and pure mathematics and the applications of mathematics. The program enhances analytical and critical thinking skills and prepares students for research and teaching mathematics.