Something that worked for me...Notes on Making Mathematical Notes for Your Course / NPV and IRR using Excel

Notes on Making Mathematical Notes for Your Course: About thirty years ago, I produced a handwritten summary of guidance notes for students on mathematical language, symbols, logic and proofs. I found this document again recently and decided that it was still worth distributing, at least to mathematics majors and joint majors since it does seem to capture some essential skills that a student should acquire during a first semester at university. The typed document is available in PDF format at: http://www.ma.umist.ac.uk/kd/ma351/notes.pdf and is reproduced here.…The author shares a summary of guidance notes for students on mathematical language, symbols, logic and proofs…/… NPV and IRR using Excel: Our students meet the idea of NPV and IRR in year 1 of their course. The train of thought which led me to use Excel in this context started with a workshop put on by the Operational Research Society on “Helping academics to meet the changing needs of employers” in March last year. The strong message I came away with was that employers needed experience and skill in using spreadsheets, but also meet employer needs of spreadsheet literate graduates…