SIT106 - Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: 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. 

 

Scheduled learning activities - online

Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 1 hour online lecture per week (recordings provided), 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week.

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.

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