whats the difference between normal maths and advanced maths
advanced sounds cooler lol.
Nah its just advanced forces you to take every higher level version of a math course e.g Normal maths students might just do MATH1131 (Math 1A) OR do Math1141 (Higher Math 1A) BUT adv. students must do Math1141 regardless. Furthermore adv. students have to be hitting 70+ (ideally DN+) for their maths courses in order to stay afloat, iirc 70 WAM is the minimum for honour and you can't go onto higher lvl 2 courses without getting 70+ in math1241 (higher maths 1b)
So why would anyone do advanced? Well advanced has an inbuilt honours system so that your degree is structured in a way such that you will ideally just flow onto a honours year without needing to do the normal procedure of applying for honours from a normal maths degree e.g bachelor of sci with major in maths, because you already demonstrate your competence.
In lvl 2+ courses, there are actually noticeable differences between the higher math courses in that you miss over topics or don't really extend your knowledge and just doing the normal version for all ur lvl 2+ courses would mean you're less familiar with the content relative to someone who studied all the higher courses. Difference not as big in lvl 1 courses (if not any difference, just trickier questions) but from ppl i spoke to, the gap seems to get bigger (hence ppl dropping to bachelor of sci or just dipping the degree) and i can only imagine that gap of knowledge will get bigger over time.
Thats the jist of it, go to the honours page to see more specifics. For e.g you'll need 70+ average for all your lvl 3 math courses, do certain math courses, be a certain major and so on.
