MATH 109Mathematics For Accounting
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1993–94 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Review and extension of differential calculus for functions of one variable. Multivariable differential calculus. Partiat derivatives, the chain rule, maxima and minima and Lagrange multipliers. Mathematics of finance. Simple and compound interest, present value, annuities and continuous compounding. Open only to Arts students in the School of Accountancy.
As printed in the 1993–94 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: OAC Calculus, or MATH 104
Antireq: All Calculus courses labelled MATH 1x7, 1x8
In today’s calendar
Reviewed on UW Flow
74% liked it93% easy61% useful
From 118 ratings and 27 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
It is easy for the majority of the class, until the final 2 weeks. You will be learning what math people really learn. The final is pretty much based on those final 2 weeks and it was brutal. Final was MATH 135 Level and everyone failed. The reason they do this is because the majority of the class is easy, and since AFM people are really smart, the 2 averages for midterm are like 95%. So to drop the average, they have to make the final very hard. Most people, after the final, dropped from 95% to 70s.
Aug 2015 · didn’t like it · 2 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this
Pretty much a bird course, but most of it was because Ashburner was so great. It's too bad she left and I was really lucky to get her for her last term. Beginning of the course was gr12 calc. Nothing in particular about the course was too difficult.
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It's mostly just grade 12 calculus and advanced functions, with just slightly more stuff related to economics and matrices if you didn't do that already in high school. Assignments are much harder than what is actually tested on the midterm and final, but you can work with others on them.
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no need to go to class if you've taken high school calc. everything's review except a few econ 101/102 related concepts.
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there is no way you can fail this course
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
97 posts and comments in 58 threads mention MATH 109, December 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2023
MATH 109 co-op students be like 1 point, 1 comment
u/Longjumping_Shoe7072: “I solved d/dx (2x + 4) now pay me $25/hr”
Fall 2020
Internal transfer to faculty of math 5 points, 14 comments
“How common is it for students to internally transfer into the faculty of math? Is it almost impossible to transfer? I’m in my 1A life science going to attempt to transfer for next fall. …”
u/poopmeister993: “I recently transferred to math from the science faculty (was in physics) transferring depends on your grades. …”
u/poopmeister993: “… btw read this page: We advise against taking some courses, such as MATH 103, MATH 104, MATH 109, CS 100, STAT 202, STAT 211, and STAT 220, as they will not help you toward a transfer into Math.”
Spring 2020
I drew a 4koma about AFM-chan getting help for Math 109 from Math-chan 153 points, 8 comments
u/leea0526: “rip math 109”
Review for AFM 0 points, 6 comments
“Was just wondering what I should review before going into my first year of AFM? Got lots of time with this quarantine so was just wondering!”
u/UwDJ: “Reviewing Calculus and Stats is worthwhile even basic accounting for 101 would be useful.”
u/UwDJ: “We had calc in first year - math 109”
AFM vs Laurier BBA? Where should I go 1 point, 9 comments
“What would u do in my position? So I’m deciding between Laurier BBA and Waterloo AFM. I intend on going into finance or accounting so AFM is the logical choice. …”
u/SilverDolphin3411: “AFM usually has a 95%+ co-op employment rate. According to the school website, if you don't get a co-op job, you can petition to stay in the program, but you'll need very strong persuasive reasons as …”
u/SilverDolphin3411: “… MATH109 is no longer required, so the only math course you're required to take is STAT211 in 1B. STAT211 is for SAF (AFM) students only. For first year, you're pretty much only taking AFM courses. There's usually some CFM or Math CPA students in them as well. …”
Comprehensive Guide to AFM based on my experiences 70 points, 26 comments
u/suh-dude_: “… MATH 109 - Just a basic math course, do the work and you'll be fine. Not challenging at all ECON 101 - Intro to Micro: Gets challenging near the end, but the exams are very fair and all multiple choice. Not hard to do well in. …”
u/leea0526: “… over the years: INST 101 is gone but they just added BET 100 AFM 131 replaced with AFM 132 MATH 109 replaced with AFM 111 STAT 211 replaced with AFM 113 AFM 211 replaced with AFM 212 AFM 202/203/204 replaced with AFM 20[5,6,7,8] AFM 341 - they changed it up in 2019 so it's more …”
u/nanogoose: “… The MATH109 for our cohort gave so few shits, he re-used a widely available midterm verbatim for our 2nd midterm. Legendary. I've found MAcc to be easier and more chill than any other undergraduate year. …”
AFM math load? 1 point, 9 comments
“Is the AFM program math heavy? I took my grade 12 math courses in grade 11 due to the IB program so I haven't done math in a while.”
[deleted]: “Add subtract divide multiply that's about it? Math 109 and stats are the hardest but that's cuz I didn't try first year Math 109 easy 80+ i studied for the final less than 2 hours Stats just fucks me up bro cuz I didn't study at all LOL”
u/leea0526: “math 109 no longer exists”
Fall 2019
Has any AFM student gotten less than 70 in 1A? 8 points, 15 comments
“What happened if you did?”
u/afmthrowaway1: “The new AFM curriculum is a killer. Good luck”
u/afmthrowaway1: “AFM 112 is more useful than MATH 109, and the learning curve is way higher since most 1A students do not have much coding experiences prior to coming to university, or at least not with R. AFM 111, I heard, was marked pretty harshly (mostly 60s). They still take STAT 211 in 1B. …”
which courses should i take to increase my chances of transferring into the math faculty? 11 points, 12 comments
u/jjjyoug: “… the math advisor suggested to take math 136, cs115 and math 109(it usually would’ve been 135 but they changed the policy for taking that i think). …”
u/virtuousrose: “I don't know about which courses are best to take, but double check that math 109 is still being offered. It was a required course for afm until last year and I don't think other programs take it”
Spring 2019
Can I handle math 104 if I got a 55 in 11u Functions and didn’t take 12U advanced functions or calculus? 3 points, 10 comments
u/neancol: “I'm dying to know the story behind the 55 you got”
u/henry-bacon: “Some people are naturally not good at certain types of math, I barely got by in MATH109 in first year and it's considered one of the easiest if not the easiest course in my program.”
Fall 2018
Business 2 points, 8 comments
“I am mainly interested in Business...I was unable to decide between two Undergrad degrees i.e. Business and Arts Honours or Business and environment....but the problem is I wanted to know if I could …”
u/leea0526: “Accounting and Financial Management does not specialize in math; the math you do in it is equivalent to the math that you'll do in Arts and Business or Environment and Business.”
u/leea0526: “MATH 109 (one of two math courses that current AFM students must take) covers single-variable calculus, a slight intro to multivariable calculus (including partial derivatives, chain rule, max/min and Lagrange multipliers) and a slight intro to matrices. …”
Anyone else still waiting on marks? 33 points, 55 comments
“Do these remaining marks come out after the university is open again or..? I mean I’ve been waiting on some of these exams for over 10 days and that should be more than enough time I feel, no? :/”
u/El_Chapotato: “new afm kid here, math 109 and econ 101 still waiting Cool I get it takes a while to grade a math test when it was made near the end of exam season but why the fuck has it been so difficult to finish the grading for an econ multiple choice exam done near the beginning”
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1993–94 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars
Review and extension of differential calculus for functions of one variable. Multivariable differential calculus. Partiat derivatives, the chain rule, maxima and minima and Lagrange multipliers. Mathematics of finance. Simple and compound interest, present value, annuities and continuous compounding.
Open only to Arts students in the School of Accountancy.
Prereq: OAC Calculus, or MATH 104
Antireq: All Calculus courses labelled MATH 1x7, 1x8
Offered Fall · 3 class, 2 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit