Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
MAT138H1
Introduction to Proofs
What was the average?
B
3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2021.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Low
A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceThe goal of this course is for students to become comfortable with abstraction, rigour, logic, and proofs. They will practice reading and understanding mathematical statements, analyzing definitions and properties, formulating conjectures and generalizations, providing and writing reasonable and precise arguments, writing and critiquing proofs. The instructor may use specific mathematical content, which could vary from year to year, to practice these skills. Students who take MAT130H1/ MAT135H1 and MAT136H1 and wish to take MAT237Y1 are required to take MAT138H1 prior to undertaking MAT237Y1. Students who are taking MAT137Y1 ( MAT148H1, MAT149H1) or MAT157Y1 ( MAT158H1, MAT159H1) and/or MAT240H1 and are interested in more preparation with logical arguments are encouraged to take MAT138H1 concurrently.
- Prerequisite
- High school level calculus
- Exclusions
- MAT137H5MAT137Y1MAT137Y5MAT139H5MAT148H1MAT149H1MAT157Y1MAT157Y5MAT158H1MAT159H1MATA30H3MATA31H3MATA37H3
- Contact hours
- 36 lecture · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 20211 term observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
The newest observation is from Fall 2021. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.
This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
How well we know this course
2017–2023Pyko’s archive holds 21 documents for MAT138H1, across 3 years between 2017 and 2023.
- 4
- Final exams
- 1
- Midterms
- 2
- Solution sets
- 8
- Assignments
- 3
- Tutorial material
- 3
- Handouts
Both a midterm and a final appear in what we hold, so this course has historically been assessed on both rather than on a single end-of-term paper.
Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed, which matters most where no syllabus has been verified.
What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 1 term | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 21 archived documents, 2017-2023 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
3 courses list MAT138H1 as a prerequisiteThe other 2 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names MAT138H1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what MAT138H1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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