If you’re coming to Newcastle University to study Engineering in September or October 2022, welcome! Whether you’re starting in Stage 1 or in Foundation Year, you’ll be doing modules in Maths, Materials Science, Mechanics, etc, but maths is a major ingredient of many modules as you’ll see.

This page is to help you prepare especially if you’ve not studied maths for a couple of years. That’s true of many Foundation Year students who didn’t take A-level maths. Bur for all incoming students, being really confident about basic numeracy and algebra will be really helpful as we introduce new topics.

For Foundation Year entry, we’ve got several documents you can access even before you’ve arrived or registered (when you’ll get access to our ‘Canvas’ web-pages).

We strongly recommend that you look at these materials and revise at least one or two basic topics before the pressure and rush of the new term!

• The first document is a longer introduction to these materials.
• The second covers a large range of basic maths topics, with simple examples and some practice questions.
• The ‘Revision booklet’ has a number of topics with questions and answers – for Foundation Year entry you should attempt sections 1, 2, 4, 5.
• The SFY0001 notes are outline notes from a previous version of an Introductory Course; you might find some of these useful.

You might also look at suitable on-line materials such as BBC Bitesize at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6vg9j6

Do spend some time on these materials – you’ll get off to a better start on a course that can be challenging at times!