Overview
In this unit, you will apply essential mathematical concepts, processes and techniques to develop mathematical descriptions and models for problems in science, engineering, business, and other disciplines. You will learn and apply the properties of linear, quadratic, exponential, and logarithmic rules in appropriate settings and use trigonometric rules to solve relevant problems. You will also practice 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 - 2024
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 Student Unit Feedback
Some students appear to be facing challenges in managing the content covered within the unit.
Reduce the unit topics covered by removing inequalities and sequences and series topics.
Feedback from Unit coordinator reflection
Enhance lecture resources through topic-specific recordings.
Split the weekly video lectures into individual segmented topics.
- 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 - First Nations Knowledges | |||||
| 11 - 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 | 11 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | |||||||||||
Textbooks
ESSENTIALS AND EXAMPLES OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS (2ND ED)
- Edition: 2 (2021)
- Authors: William Guo
- Pearson Australia
- Melbourne Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
- ISBN: 9780655703624
- 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, speaker 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.
d.tanna@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 04 Mar 2024Module/Topic
Unit preview
Review: Algebra (1)
Chapter
Section 1.1 Numbers and Operations (1)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 1.1
Complete Exercises 1.1 in textbook
Week 2
Begin Date: 11 Mar 2024Module/Topic
Review: Algebra (2)
Chapter
Section 1.1 Numbers and Operations (2)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Sections 1.1
Complete Exercises 1.1 in textbook
Week 3
Begin Date: 18 Mar 2024Module/Topic
Review: Algebra (3)
Chapter
Section 1.2 Algebraic Expressions and Operations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 1.2
Complete Exercises 1.2 in textbook
Week 4
Begin Date: 25 Mar 2024Module/Topic
Review: Algebra (4)
Chapter
Section 1.3 Factoring Algebraic Expressions
Section 1.4 Algebraic Fraction Operations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Sections 1.3-1.4
Complete Exercises 1.3 & 1.4 in textbook
Week 5
Begin Date: 01 Apr 2024Module/Topic
Review: Algebra (5)
Chapter
Section 1.5 Equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 1.5
Complete Exercises 1.5 in textbook
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 08 Apr 2024Module/Topic
Mid-Term Break
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 6
Begin Date: 15 Apr 2024Module/Topic
Review: Triangles and Trigonometry (1)
Chapter
Section 2.1 Plane Angles and General Properties of Triangles
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 2.1
Complete Exercises 2.1 in textbook
Assignment 1 Due: Week 6 Thursday (18 Apr 2024) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 7
Begin Date: 22 Apr 2024Module/Topic
Review: Triangles and Trigonometry (2)
Chapter
Section 2.2.1 Trigonometric Functions of General Angles
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 2.2.1
Complete Exercises 2.2 in textbook
Week 8
Begin Date: 29 Apr 2024Module/Topic
Review: Triangles and Trigonometry (3)
Chapter
Section 2.2.2 Trigonometric Identities and Relationships
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 2.2.2
Complete Exercises 2.2 in textbook
Week 9
Begin Date: 06 May 2024Module/Topic
Review: Triangles and Trigonometry (4)
Chapter
Section 2.3 Oblique Triangles and Laws of Sines and Cosines
Section 2.4 Summary of Basic Geometry
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Sections 2.3-2.4
Complete Exercises 2.3 & 2.4 in textbook
Week 10
Begin Date: 13 May 2024Module/Topic
Inequalities, Absolute Values, Equations and Inequalities
Chapter
Section 3.1 Inequalities
Section 3.2 Absolute Values, Equations and Inequalities
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Sections 3.1-3.2
Complete Exercises 3.1 & 3.2 in textbook
Week 11
Begin Date: 20 May 2024Module/Topic
Sequences and Series
Chapter
Section 3.3 Sequences and Series
Events and Submissions/Topic
Read Section 3.3
Complete Exercises 3.3 in textbook
Assignment 2 Due: Week 11 Thursday (23 May 2024) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 12
Begin Date: 27 May 2024Module/Topic
Unit review and examination preparation
Chapter
Unit Review and Examination Preparation
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 03 Jun 2024Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 10 Jun 2024Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Unit Coordinator: Dushyant Tanna
email: d.tanna@cqu.edu.au
Telephone (Office): 07 4930 9821
Office: School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity Australia, Building 30/G0.10, Bruce Highway, North Rockhampton Qld, 4701
If you have any individual queries, please do not hesitate to email me and I will get back to you within two working days.
1 Written Assessment
This is an individual assignment. This assignment is to test student's learning outcomes for topics studied in Weeks 1-5. The assignment details are provided on the Moodle website.
Week 6 Thursday (18 Apr 2024) 5:00 pm AEST
It is envisaged that feedback and solutions will be available in two weeks, or as soon as the marking 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
2 Written Assessment
This is an individual assignment. This assignment is to test student's learning outcomes for topics studied in Weeks 6-10. The assignment details are provided on the Moodle website.
Week 11 Thursday (23 May 2024) 5:00 pm AEST
It is envisaged that the feedback and solutions will be available before the exam if all students submitted this assignment on time.
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
Examination
Calculator - non-programmable, no text retrieval, silent only
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.
What can you do to act with integrity?
