MA1021:03
Preparatory Mathematical Skills
| Cairns | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 26 practice classes. Semester 1.
Staff: Mr D Godwin.
This subject will introduce students to the main topics of undergraduate mathematics, to enable access to MA1000 and other quantitatively based subjects. Topics will include arithmetic and calculator skills; basic algebraic skills with applications, linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions and their graphs; simple matrices and simultaneous equations. Introduction to differential and integral calculus with applications, trigonometry and vectors.
Learning Objectives:
- basic competence in mathematics;
- to develop some expertise in the use of mathematics to solve problems.
Assessment by written examination (50%); progress tests (40%); assignments (10%).