Unit Profile Correction added on 06-05-20
Due to the university's COVID-19 response, the exam in this unit will be replaced with a 24 hour take-home exam.
Passing criteria: 50% of the available marks on the assessment
More details will be available in Moodle. Learning outcomes assessed will be unchanged.
Overview
In this unit, you will apply essential mathematical concepts, processes and techniques to develop mathematical descriptions and models for problems in sciences, engineering, business and other disciplines. You will learn and apply the properties of linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic rules in appropriate settings, use trigonometric rules to solve relevant problems. You will also practise effective communication of results, concepts and ideas using mathematics as a language in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and precise approach.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-requisite: MATH11160
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from In class, by email, through Moodle
Many students had difficulty in applying basic math operations, which was assumed prerequisite knowledge.
Consider adjustments to coverage of all math units for education students to increase the teaching time in introductory mathematics.
- Demonstrate foundation mathematics skills with emphasis on those areas applicable to multiple disciplines
- Formulate and analyse simple mathematical models
- Apply theory to practical problems drawn from a range of disciplines
- Solve unfamiliar problems using foundation mathematics techniques
- Communicate results, concepts and ideas in context using mathematics as a language.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
ESSENTIALS AND EXAMPLES OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Edition: 1st edn (2018)
Authors: Guo, WW
Pearson Australia
Melbourne Melbourne , VIC , Australia
ISBN: 9781488623820
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
Copies are available for purchase at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
y.wang2@cqu.edu.au
r.dodd@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Review: Numbers and operations
Chapter
Chapter 1.1 ( textbook)
Week 1 reading material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 1.1 or Week 1 reading material;
Complete exercise 1.1 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 1 reading material.
Module/Topic
Review: Algebraic expressions and operations
Chapter
Chapter 1.2 (textbook);
Week 2 reading material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 1.2 in textbook or Week 2 reading material;
Complete 1.2 exercises;
Try exercises in Week 2 reading material.
Module/Topic
Review: Factoring algebraic expressions
Chapter
Chapter 1.3-1.4 (textbook);
Week 3 reading material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 1.3 -1.4 in textbook or Week 3 reading material;
Complete 1.3-1.4 exercises;
Try exercises in Week 3 reading material.
Module/Topic
Review: Equations
Chapter
Chapter 1.5 (textbook);
Week 4 reading material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 1.5 in textbook or Week 4 reading material;
Complete 1.5 exercises;
Try exercises in Week 4 reading material.
Module/Topic
Review: Introduction to trigonometry
Chapter
Chapter 2.1 (textbook);
Week 5 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 2.1 in textbook or Week 5 reading material;
Complete 2.1 exercises in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 5 reading material.
Assignment 1 Due: Week 5 Wednesday (8 Apr 2020) 11:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Mid-Term Break
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Review: Trigonometric functions for any angles
Chapter
Chapter 2.2.1 (textbook);
Week 6 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Complete Question 1-7 in exercise 2.2 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 6 reading material.
Module/Topic
Review: Trigonometric identities
Chapter
Chapter 2.2.2 (textbook);
Week 7 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Complete Question 8-9 in exercise 2.2 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 7 reading material.
Module/Topic
Functions: Solving oblique triangles
Chapter
Chapter 2.3-2.4 (textbook);
Week 8 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 2.3-2.4 in textbook or Week 8 reading material;
Complete exercise 2.3 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 8 reading material.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Chapter 3.1-3.2 (textbook);
Week 9 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 3.1-3.2 in textbook or Week 9 reading material;
Complete exercise 3.1 and 3.2 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 9 reading material.
Module/Topic
Introduction to functions and graphs
Chapter
Chapter 4.1 (textbook);
Week 10 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 4.1 in textbook or Week 10 reading material;
Complete exercise 4.1 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 10 reading material.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Chapter 4.2 (textbook);
Week 11 reading material.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Chapter 4.2 in textbook or Week 11 reading material;
Complete exercise 4.2 in textbook;
Try exercises in Week 11 reading material.
Assignment 2 Due: Week 11 Wednesday (27 May 2020) 11:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Unit review and examination preparation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
This is an individual assignment.
This assignment is to test student's learning outcomes in basic algebra reviewed in Weeks 1-4. The assignment details are provided on the Moodle website.
Week 5 Wednesday (8 Apr 2020) 11:00 pm AEST
Week 7 Wednesday (29 Apr 2020)
It is envisaged that feedback and solutions will be available in two weeks, or as soon as the process is completed.
The final mark is out of 25. Questions are awarded the full marks allocated if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value. To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown. Assignments will receive NO marks if submitted after the solutions are released.
- Demonstrate foundation mathematics skills with emphasis on those areas applicable to multiple disciplines
- Formulate and analyse simple mathematical models
- Communicate results, concepts and ideas in context using mathematics as a language.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
This is an individual assignment.
This assignment is to test student's learning outcomes in triangles, trigonometric identities and basic geometry and inequalities, absolute equations and inequalities covered in Weeks 5-10. The assignment details are provided on the Moodle website.
Week 11 Wednesday (27 May 2020) 11:00 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (10 June 2020)
It is envisaged that feedback and solutions will be available prior to sitting the standard examination.
The final mark is out of 25. Questions are awarded the full marks allocated if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value. To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown. Assignments will receive NO marks if submitted after the solutions are released.
- Apply theory to practical problems drawn from a range of disciplines
- Solve unfamiliar problems using foundation mathematics techniques
- Communicate results, concepts and ideas in context using mathematics as a language.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
