EPSB078

Foundation Mathematics

Callaghan and Ourimbah campuses

This course is designed to refresh your memory of mathematics and requires a basic level of numeracy and algebraic skills. It is suited to students enrolling in Intermediate Mathematics or Extension Mathematics in the Open Foundation and/or Yapug programs, or Advanced Mathematics in the Newstep program.

Note: The course is not suitable for students enrolling in Introductory Mathematics.

Topics include:

• natural numbers, prime numbers
• integers, dealing with negative numbers
• fractions
• surds, Pythagoras’ Theorem
• order of operations
• Index Laws and Log Laws
• algebra, expanding, gathering, factoring, squaring
• equations, simultaneous equations, quadratic equations
• graphing: straight lines and parabolas

Note: Students will require a Scientific Calculator for the course.