MATH151: General Mathematics 1A

This page contains some material for the course: MATH 151 Mathematics 1A Part 1. Almost all of the material for this course is distributed through the course e-learning site. This web-page is only used for emergency situations. Most of the material distributed via this page is made available as a PDF file. To read these files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine. You should be able to download this software by following appropriate links from the ITS page:
http://www.its.uow.edu.au.

Contents

• 2007 University Calendar web page for MATH141.
• Student consultation.
• Content of MATH151.
• Additional resources for MATH151.
  • Books
  • Chapter 0
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
• Overview of Lectures.
  1. Week 1.
  2. Week 2.
  3. Week 3.
  4. Week 4.
  5. Week 5.
  6. Week 6.
  7. Week 7.
  8. Week 8.
  9. Week 9.
  10. Week 10.
  11. Week 11.
  12. Week 12.
  13. Week 13.
• Assignments.
• Practice Test Paper.
• Test results.
• Optional tutorials.
• What's on the exam paper?
• Answers to previous exam papers.
• Miscellaneous.
• Timetable for study assistance during study week

Your mark for this course comprises:

• 10% on assignments.
• 10% on on-line quizes.
  • The test in week four will contain questions from the following subject areas: indices, logarithms and surds.
  • The test in week eight will contain questions from the following subject areas:
  • The test in week thirteen will contain questions from the following subject areas:
• 30% on the three tests (10% each).
• 50% on the final exam.

Student Consultation

In 2009 my consolation hours are:

Tuesday	13.30-15.30
Friday	13.30-15:30

My room is 15.G26. If you cannot come at these times, contact me to arrange an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Content of MATH151

MATH141 is divided into ten chapters. These are:

1. Indices.
2. Logarithms.
3. Function Notation.
4. Mostly About Straight Lines.
5. Trigonometry.
6. Exponential Growth & Decay.
7. Data Modelling.
8. Limits.
9. Differentiation.
10. Integration.

Assignments

Assignment 1	On the subject outline
Assignment 13	This assignment contains some revision questions. It doesn't count towards your final mark!

Practice Test Paper

2009
Week 12

Test Results

If you would like to discuss your answers to any test, please send an email and arrange a time to see me: I am unable to discuss your answers if you turn up unannounced.

PDF file containing your mark on the first test, your mark on the second version of the first test (if you did it), your mark on the second test and your mark on the second version of the second test (if you did it). Your mark on each test is out of twenty. Take your best mark on each test and divide by two to calculate the contribution towards your final mark. The results are sorted numerically according to student number. Nobody scored `0'. A mark of 0 means that you did not take the test. If you had special consideration and took the second version of the test after the other students your mark is not recorded here.

If you think that you student number does not appear on the file then you need to come to my office with a two-dollar coin that you will give to me. If I find your student number on the file then I keep the two-dollar coin. If your student number is missing then I return the two-dollar coin.

Note: You do not need to pass each test to pass the course. Obviously it is desirable to do well on the test...

Optional tutorials

The purpose of the optional tutorials is for you to ask me any questions that you have about the course. Sometimes I will write an optional tutorial sheet for the optional tutorial. I won't do this every week. When I do it you may find it useful to look at the questions on the sheet prior to the tutorial.

2009
Week 11

What's on the exam paper?

I'm often asked what sections of the notes will be examined on the final exam. Here are some guidelines. Please note that the following comments should not be taken as a 100% guarantee. To see why this is so, consider a hypothetical question on data-modelling that is worth five marks. To answer such a question correctly you might need to know about logarithms and exponential functions. However, in the following I would count this question as five marks on on data modelling.

The 2009 exam paper has two sections. The first section contains twenty multiple choice. There are ten chapters in the book. (I'm ignoring chapter zero). There will be two questions per chapter. The second section contains long answer questions. The marks for this section are approximately as follows:

• Logarithms. 2 marks
• Straight Lines. 4 marks
• Trigonometry. 3 marks.
• Exponential Growth & Decay. 11 marks.
• Data Modelling. 8 marks.
• Limits. 2 marks.
• Differentiation. 5 marks.
• Integration. 5 marks.

Answers to previous exam papers

Solutions to some previous exam papers are available

1992

multiple choice questions

Part B

Miscellaneous

Make your own graph paper.

Timetable for study assistance during study week

• Tuesday 9th June 2009. 9.30-11.30 in 15.107 (Wollongong).
• Wednesday 10th June 2009. 12.30-14.30 in 19.1002 (Wollongong).
• Thursday 11th June 2009. 16.30-18.30 in 15.107 (Wollongong).

Notes:

1. Staff will not be available for assistance outside these times. An exception to this is that Mark will have consultation ohurs on Tuesday 9th June from 13.30-15.30.
2. There will be a roster system for answering questions and a limit of 3 questions per student at any one time.
3. Students should bring with them their lecture notes and/or attempted exercises when asking for assistance.