James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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MA1021:03

Quantitative Skills

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Inadmissable Subject Combination: EC1100 MA1020

39 lectures, 26 tutorials. First semester; second semester flexible delivery.

Re-establishment of arithmetic skills and calculator use. Basic algebraic skills with applications. Linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions and their graphs. Simple matrices and simultaneous equations. Introduction to differential calculus, with applications. Linear regression.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to develop sufficient basic mathematical skills for application to quantitatively-based University level subjects;
  2. to develop basic skills with numeracy, symbolic algebra and graphs.

Assessment by tests and assignments (35%); examination (65%).


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