GENG0001 MATHEMATICS A

Lecturer: Vesna PerišićBuilding 54, Room 7027, Tel. 25127 e-mail V.Perisic@soton.ac.uk

Teaching organisation

1. Lectures - VP – 3 lectures per week; - learn new concepts illustrated by

a simple examples

2. Workshops

There are 3 workshops per week:• run by postgraduate students (6 groups, each group run by 2 PGs)• work on problem sheets (with added results)• tests and the role of the tests

6 Workshop groups

• Group 1: Michael Hogg & Prathiban Sureshkumar• Group 2: Truc Van Nguyen & Siavash Mirahmadi• Group 3: Taha Ben Masaud & Sana Rashid• Group 4: Aliza Abd Rahmin N.A.B. & Powee Kucita• Group 5: Michal Kalkowski & Nada Al Bunni• Group 6: Keith Pham & Jian Guo

3. Math Support

- run by Maria Koeck

Peer Support – quotes from the students

• I did benefit from the peer support. I felt that teaching topics to others helped to reinforce the topics in my head.

• I feel I did benefit because I gained friends from it. It may have contributed to ‘The Base Room’ being a study area rather then a wholly social one. I admired the patience of some of the helpers.

• The peer support sessions were a great help.

• Facebook is a powerful aid in these circumstances…

• Peer support has certainly had benefits for both those helping and getting help, and it is definitely a worthwhile endeavour. However, I think that those who made it work where probably the people who would have been getting together to study anyway. If you were able to find a way to extend it to a wider audience then I think it would be a great addition to the course.

Feedback on your progress

• What is feedback? - Implicit feedback- Tests as

feedback - Explicit feedback• What kind of feedback would you like

to get?

Problems !!!!

Deal with them on time.

Assessment

100% Closed Book Exam (2 hours)

Teaching Resources

• Lecture Notes (Blackboard)• Book: Anthony Croft and Robert

Davison: Mathematics for Engineers (MyMathLab Global) • http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk• Facebook?

Syllabus

• Solving Linear simultaneous equations by substitution and elimination

• Factorisation, Solving quadratic equations by factorisation, Solving quadratic equations by formula

• Simultaneous equations with one linear equation and one quadratic equation

• Inequalities• Indices, Logarithms, logarithmic function,

Indicial Equations• The exponential function

Syllabus-cont.

• Polynomials and factorisation (Long division)

• The remainder theorem • APs and GPs• Partial Fractions • The Binomial Theorem• Matrices and Determinants• Solution of simultaneous equations by

matrices and determinants

Syllabus –cont.

• Radians, arc length and the area of a sector

• Basic trig functions and their graphs• Simple trigonometric identities, Polar and

rectangular co-ordinates, Parametric representation

• Sine and cosine rules, Compound and Multiple angles

• Revision (Week 12-last teaching week)

MATHS A EXAM (January)

Questions?

Thanks!