BR1245:03
Mathematics A2
Townsville, Cairns
External mode only with on-campus tutorial assistance. Second semester.
Staff: Mr M McLean (Townsville campus); Ms M Collins (Cairns campus).
Aspects of the year 11 and 12 syllabus covered will centre on the most appropriate elements suitable for tertiary studies in humanities and some science courses, such as Nursing Science. Building on Mathematics A1, the students will learn basic algebra and geometry. As well, they will cover basic statistics, populations and sampling, statistical inference and comparison and whisker-box plot and standard deviation.
Learning Objectives:
- utilise the student’s mathematics skill for calculation of areas and perimeters of regular shapes;
- obtain an understanding of three dimensional objects and the calculation of volume for regular geometric shapes;
- learn trigonometric functions with calculations for angles and side lengths using tan, sin and cos ratios;
- learn the properties of the straight line equation and graphing skills for plotting data, scattergram, pie chart, histogram;
- learn population sampling, normal and random distribution, quantification of data sets using the average, mean, mode and the standard deviation of data sets. The concept of statistical inference along with linear regression analysis.
Assessment by assignments and the option of an end-of-semester examination.