Welcome. About the first week

The course will start on the upcoming Monday 19th.  There are a few things that are new this semester, and presumably you would want us to spend a bit of time to inform you on the course in general and the new elements in particular.

However: Since you should start solving problems as early as possible, I suggest to get straight at the math for the first couple of days, review functions, get done with exponential functions and logarithms - and then, probably on Wednesday, spend half an hour on a course overview: What you will be expected to learn, what is this new course layout, what is new about the compulsory activities, what is new about the exam format, how should the "workshop" work, etc. 

And by that time I also want a contact student - or a team of two or three.  I would like to have ones who can gather information every two lectures or so about what was possible to grasp and what was not, and give feedback on what needs to be reviewed - although I need to stress that "thinking you understood" before having attempted to solve problems, just is not enough. 

There are old lecture notes available for those who want to have a look in advance. Last year's notes here: /studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4120/h18/lecturenotes/ . The first part is those four PDFs uploaded by You Wu (we will move limits and l'H?pital's rule to the third week though). This semester we have a room with a document camera, so we can upload similar after the lectures. 

See you on Monday. 

- Nils (Framstad)