Overview
Foundation Mathematics is designed to provide you with foundation concepts, rules and methods of elementary mathematics. The main aim of this unit is to provide the foundations of mathematics, which are necessary to develop a unified body of knowledge. You will learn algebraic fundamentals and equation solving. Exponents and logarithms will be introduced together with linear systems, quadratic functions and graphs. You will also study introductory trigonometry, geometry and ratios. You will use mathematics foundation concepts to solve problems.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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 - 2021
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 pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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 Student feedback from the Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Students commented that the volume of weekly course work should be reduced due to the repetitive nature of some practice exercises.
Review and optimise the weekly recommended course work activities.
Feedback from Student feedback from the Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Positive student feedback was received noting the unit was well structure, well resourced, engaging, easy to follow lectures and had helpful, supportive staff.
Continue to offer a positive learning experience.
- Apply number and algebra concepts to solve problems
- Analyse and solve problems using trigonometry
- Develop solutions to problems through application of area and volume equations
- Formulate and apply mathematical functions and graphs in solving equations
- Select appropriate mathematical methods, use them to investigate and solve problems, and interpret the results
- Use mathematics as a language to communicate results, concepts and ideas in context
- Document the solutions to problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and precise approach.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Portfolio - 0% | |||||||
3 - Examination - 0% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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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
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3 - Examination - 0% |
Textbooks
Engineering Mathematics
Eighth Edition (2017)
Authors: John Bird
Routledge
New York New York , New York , USA
ISBN: 978-1-138-67359-5
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Access to a document scanner and/or pdf converter (all assessment submitted electronically as pdf file)
- Access to a printer (for printing assessment and tutorial materials)
- Access to a webcam, speakers and microphone or a headset (for participating in Zoom lectures and tutorials)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.dodd@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 1.1 to 1.4 and 2.1 to 2.7
Chapter
Chapter 1: Revision of fractions, decimals and percentages; and
Chapter 2: Indices, standard form and engineering notation
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 1 to 9 and Week 1 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 5.1 to 5.5 and 6.1 to 6.3
Chapter
Chapter 5: Algebra; and
Chapter 6: Further algebra
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 24 to 31 and Week 2 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 7.1 to 7.4 and 8.1 to 8.5
Chapter
Chapter 7: Partial fractions; and
Chapter 8: Solving simple equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 32 to 38 and Week 3 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 9.1 to 9.4 and 10.1 to 10.5
Chapter
Chapter 9: Transposition of formulae; and
Chapter 10: Solving simultaneous equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 39 to 45 and Week 4 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 11.1 to 11.6 and 12.1 to 12.6
Chapter
Chapter 11: Solving quadratic equations; and
Chapter 12: Inequalities
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 46 to 55 and Week 5 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 13.1 to 13.4 and 14.1 to 14.5
Chapter
Chapter 13: Logarithms; and
Chapter 14: Exponential functions
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 56 to 63 and Week 6 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 18.1 to 18.7 and 19.1 to 19.6
Chapter
Chapter 18: Areas of common shapes; and
Chapter 19: The circle
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 74 to 81 and Week 7 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 20.1 to 20.8 and 21.1 to 21.3
Chapter
Chapter 20: Volumes and surface areas of common solids; and
Chapter 21: Irregular areas and volumes and mean values of waveforms
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 82 to 90 and Week 8 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 22.1 to 22.8 and 23.1 to 23.6
Chapter
Chapter 22: Introduction to trigonometry; and
Chapter 23: Trigonometric waveforms
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 91 to 99 and Week 9 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 25.1 to 25.6 and 26.1 to 26.7
Chapter
Chapter 25: Triangles and some practical applications; and
Chapter 26: Trigonometric identities and equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 102 to 110 and Week 10 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 28.1 to 28.3 and 31.1 to 31.4
Chapter
Chapter 28: Straight line equations; and
Chapter 31: Graphical solution of equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 116, 117, 123 to 126 and Week 11 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Textbook Sections 32.1 to 32.6
Chapter
Chapter 32: Functions and their curves
Events and Submissions/Topic
Textbook Practice Exercises 127 to 129 and Week 12 Tutorial Exercises
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
Students will progress through a series of weekly Competency Tests linked to the textbook, Engineering Mathematics. Upon completion of the prescribed weekly course work, students are required to complete the corresponding Competency Test. The test is then submitted for marking and feedback. A result of 80% or more is required for each Competency Test. If a result of less than 80% occurs, students are required to review the course work and then complete, and pass, an additional Competency Test.
The competency test will be due by Thursday 5:00PM AEST in the week following the associated prescribed course work.
Usually within two weeks of the due date; through the unit Moodle site.
Questions are from course content covered in the week associated with the competency test. Solutions are awarded full marks if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some errors, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value.
Solutions to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented. Full working is required to obtain maximum credit for solutions.
Important: The MATH11247 unit that you are enrolled in is pass non-graded unit. Grading in this unit will likely be different to other units of study you may be enrolled in. If you elect not to submit all assessment by the required due date the highest grade that can be awarded to you is a grade of Fail.
- Apply number and algebra concepts to solve problems
- Analyse and solve problems using trigonometry
- Develop solutions to problems through application of area and volume equations
- Formulate and apply mathematical functions and graphs in solving equations
- Select appropriate mathematical methods, use them to investigate and solve problems, and interpret the results
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
2 Portfolio
Students will develop and submit a portfolio. This task aims to reward all students in the unit for their strong efforts in the unit and their focus on the weekly course work throughout the term.
The portfolio submission is the workbook of solutions to the prescribed weekly course work. This task is split into three components; Workbook (Part 1), Workbook (Part 2) and Workbook (Part 3).
Students submit their solutions to the questions from the practice exercises relating to the unit textbook. Completion of these exercises is prescribed as the minimal weekly level of required effort to grasp the essentials of MATH11247 Foundation Mathematics. The workbooks will capture and formalise the portfolio of work that students have developed.
Each workbook, contributing to the portfolio, will be graded as either Pass or Fail.
Due dates will be as advised on the MATH11247 Moodle site.
Usually within two weeks of the due date; through the unit Moodle site.
The portfolio consists of a series of workbooks. Each workbook is to contain:
1) numbered pages;
2) student signature on each page of the workbook of solutions;
3) solutions for each problem in the recommended weekly course work;
4) each solution identified by its associated practice exercise and question number;
5) a workbook index linking solutions to the recommended weekly course work; and
6) university standard of presentation.
- Use mathematics as a language to communicate results, concepts and ideas in context
- Document the solutions to problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and precise approach.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
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.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
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.