Mathematics Bridge Course

The Mathematics Bridge Course is a blended learning format to repeat and consolidate the school material at the start of your studies.

  • Who it's for:
    First-year students in international Bachelor's degree programmes
    (both technical and business degree programmes). 
  • Format: Blended learning (mix of online and in-person sessions)
  • Language: English
  • Period
    • late September through late October
    • in-person kickoff on September 28th, approx. 9:00–16:30
  • Location of the in-person sessions: Weiden
  • Cost: Free ✓

Note: The Mathematics Bridge Course does not count as a Bridge Module, no ECTS credit points can be obtained!
 

Registration

Course format

The course consists of synchronous lecture and exercise sessions as well as asynchronous learning opportunities in the moodle course.

The synchronous sessions are split evenly between video conferences and in-person block sessions. After every lecture you can practise with interactive exercises at your own pace. Right before the next lecture there will be an exercise session where the exercises will be discussed in depth.

The course ends with a voluntary and 90-minute in-person final test.

For International Business students
  • Students starting before winter semester 2026/27: 
    The result of the final test can be credited as a bonus towards the Business Mathematics exam.
  • Students starting from winter semester 2026/27: 
    You may participate in this course but the final test cannot be credited as a bonus. As an alternative you may attend the Bridging Modul Fundamentals of Arithmetic and Algebra which can be found in the course catalogue.

Curriculum

In the lectures, we will review, among other things, the following topics:

  • Real numbers, fractions, logarithms
  • Equalities and inequalities
  • Systems of linear equations
  • Proportionality and percentage calculation
  • Functions (properties, power functions, linear and quadratic functions, exponential and logarithmic functions)

The sessions are largely independent of each other, therefore, it is possible to skip sessions.
 

Test your knowledge

If you are not sure whether you should take the course, you can test your math knowledge with the MINTFIT math test (external page).