SIT106 - Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Offering information: | The last offering for this unit will be in Trimester 3, 2025 (not available from 2026) |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | SCM103, SIT197, SIT198 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3 hour seminar per week, weekly meetings. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week, weekly meetings. |
Content
The unit will consist of the following topics:
- the natural numbers, multiples, factors, prime numbers, divisibility tests, prime factorisation
- rational and irrational numbers and their representations as fractions, decimals and percentages
- the stages of a statistical investigation: posing the question, collecting the data, summarising, analysing and presenting the data; interpreting the results
- techniques for carrying out statistical investigations
- regular polygons; regular and homogeneous tessellations
- an analysis of some of the work of MC Escher; creating Escher-type tessellations in the plane
- the Platonic solids and their duals
Unit Fee Information
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