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University of Toronto Mississauga

MAT315H5

Introduction to Number Theory

Other courses coded MAT315 →

Credit0.50
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 1 papers
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MAT315H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

40% final

From the 2026 syllabus. 3 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

Elementary topics in number theory such as: prime numbers; arithmetic with residues; Gaussian integers, quadratic reciprocity law, representation of numbers as sums of squares. (This course emphasizes rigour).

Exclusions
MAT315H1MATC15H3
Contact hours
36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

MAT102H5 and MAT134H5 and MAT136H5 and MAT137Y5 and MAT139H5 and MAT157Y5 and MAT159H5 and MAT233H5 and MAT224H5 and MAT240H5 and MAT301H5

Where the marks come from

2026 syllabus
Midterm · 55%Final Exam · 40%Assignments · 5%

40% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.

Extracted from a published 2026 syllabus and reviewed against the source document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

How well we know this course

2022–2024

Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for MAT315H5, across 2 years between 2022 and 2024.

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Final exams
1
Syllabi

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What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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ClaimSourceCapturedStatus
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
2 archived documents, 2022-2024Pyko archive2026-07-25index only
Grading schemeOfficial Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05summary permitted

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

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