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Math & Statistics Boot Camp

The objective of Boot Camp is to improve your math skills while you get to know your peers.

Boot Camp is tailored exclusively for incoming MPP students wishing to prepare for the advanced economic and mathematical requirements of that degree, as well as for those MPA students committed to pursuing a policy analysis concentration (i.e., taking PUAD 601 and/or 670 in their first semester at AU).

Math & Statistics Boot Camp is held in August, usually within a week of Fall Orientation, for one full day. Email invitations and additional information will be sent during the summer to all new eligible MPA and MPP students.

Contact Marquise McGraw, mcgrawm@american.edu, with questions.

Please refer to the 2022 Syllabus for anticipated course content.

BASIC MATHEMATICS REVIEW

  • Greek notation
  • Operators
  • Order of operations
  • Basics of probability
  • Logs
  • Exponents
  • Properties of expected values
  • Equation of a line
  • Tangencies

ALGEBRA

  • Manipulating mathematical equations
  • Solving equation(s) with one or two unknowns, including equations with logs & exponents