I'm just about done with unit 4 now which puts me a third of the way through the module in terms of content. I'm tracking just over a month ahead of schedule which should give me plenty of time to tie up the loose ends from M140 and should cover what will probably be slow progress during my 3 week holiday in April/May.
Unit 1 was a nice recap on MST124 condensed down into 1 unit. I was pleasantly surprised working back over some of this content and even found that I understood it a little better this time round.
Unit 2 was all about typesetting maths and since I've been doing that for my previous 3 modules I'm already pretty competent at it and whizzed through the content whilst managing to learn a few nifty tricks that have increased my speed.
Unit 3 covered number theory and mainly focussed on congruences. I really enjoyed working through this unit although I'm still a bit unsure about why we learnt this, I understood the content OK but I always find it much easier if I can understand what the content is useful for. Maybe that will come later in the module or maybe something will click when I revisit the content during revision.
Unit 4 is all about conics and focusses on ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas and specifically in the normal position. Again a very interesting unit although due to the length of it, I found it hard work towards the end.
I've got a few unit 4 related questions to answer on my TMA and a few little bits left to tidy up and then I'm going to move onto unit 5. Hopefully by the time I've finished this, the remaining assessments from M140 will available and I can get them knocked down.
Oh and I've just completed iCMA41 and was pleased to see that we get an indication of our grades straight after submitting again (green ticks or red crosses) and was even more pleased to see that I'd got green ticks across the board.
