Tutor № 01
Jamie Baek
University of Manitoba
- Academic
- 9.0 on the TMUA, October 2024, first sitting
- Conditional offer, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
- Experience
- Founder, TMUA9
- Links
TMUA9 School
What is Polymatique?
A free course for the TMUA, run as a cohort. Open lectures for everyone, small supervisions for the students we admit.
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The cohort
One cohort at a time
Apply
A short form and your week: a calendar of the hours you can make, in your own time zone. Students and tutors both apply here; a tutor picks Tutor on the form.
We read it
Every application is read in person. The answer comes by email.
You're placed
Admitted students go into a supervision: one tutor and five to ten students whose hours overlap with theirs. Until then, the lectures are already yours.
The term runs
Lectures for the whole cohort, your supervision every week, practice on every official paper, and your work set and read by your tutor.
Open
Lectures
For everyone. Taught by Jamie Baek, 9.0 on the TMUA. The whole cohort in one room on Google Meet, recorded and put on YouTube afterwards. You don't need an account to watch: the next one is on the live page.
- Everyone
- Weekly
- Recorded
Admitted
Supervisions
For the students we admit. One tutor and five to ten students, grouped by the hours they share. Your own Google Meet each week, recorded for the group, attendance taken, a Discord channel of your own. This is where the work gets checked.
- One tutor
- Five to ten students
- At your hours
The tutors
Who teaches
The people who run the supervisions. Every one of them sat the exams they teach.
Today
What's in the building
Lectures
Open to everyone, every week, recorded.
Supervisions
One tutor, five to ten students, on Google Meet, recorded for the group, attendance taken.
Discussions
Three to eight people talking maths without a teacher.
Practice
Every official TMUA paper, timed or untimed, marked when you finish, your best score kept per paper.
Calendar
Your supervisions and the lectures in your own time zone; Join opens ten minutes before.
Discord
One channel per cohort.
AssignmentsNext
A PDF or a past paper, a due date, your tutor's comments.
What's the catch?
There isn't one for you. Polymatique is free because it isn't the product: it's how we find the people who'll teach for TMUA9. What limits a tutoring house isn't students, it's tutors good enough to put in front of them. The students who come through Polymatique are the tutors we want next, and the tutors who apply now are the ones we want first.
So admission is selective, the course is demanding, and nothing in it is watered down for being free.
Think of it as an audition we pay for.
Apply
Join the cohort
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Tutors apply the same way: pick Tutor on the form.
The lectures are free and need no account: see what's on.
