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The document outlines a Precalculus course at Mzuzu University including details like course code, duration, credit hours, topics covered, learning outcomes, and required texts. The course aims to prepare students for Calculus by developing skills with functions, equations, inequalities, and trigonometry.

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Course Outline Math1101

The document outlines a Precalculus course at Mzuzu University including details like course code, duration, credit hours, topics covered, learning outcomes, and required texts. The course aims to prepare students for Calculus by developing skills with functions, equations, inequalities, and trigonometry.

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MZUZU UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

1. PROGRAMME: Bachelor of Science


2. SUBJECT: Mathematics
3. LEVEL OF STUDY: 1
4. COURSE TITLE: Precalculus
5. COURSE CODE: MATH 1101
6. DURATION: 14 Weeks
7. PRESENTED TO: Senate
8. PRESENTED BY: Dean of Education
9. LECTURE HRS PER WEEK: 4
10. TUTORIAL HRS PER WEEK: 1
11. PRACTICAL HOURS: 0
12. INDEPENDENT LEARNING
HRS PER WEEK: 10
13. TOTAL COURSE CREDITS : 12
14. PRE-REQUISITE COURSE CODES(S):
15. CO-REQUISITE COURSE CODES(S):
16. DELIVERY METHODS:
16.1 Mode of Delivery: Face- to Face and ODL
16.2 Teaching Methods: Lectures and tutorials
17. ASSESSMENT METHODS: Two continuous tests
One end of semester examination
18. ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 40% Continuous
60% End of semester
19. AIM(S) OF THE COURSE:
 To normalize the knowledge that students
arriving possess in Mathematics
 Develop an intuition in and facility in using
mathematical models
 Prepare students for subsequent courses in
Calculus
20. LEARNING OUTCOMES : A successful learner from this course will be
able to:
 Use language of sets to conceptualize
mathematical problems
 Solve equalities and inequalities
 Graph equations and functions
 Solve optimization problems without the use of
Calculus
 Apply methods learnt in the context of
logarithmic and exponential functions

21. TOPICS OF STUDY : Review


 Sets, nth-roots, etc

Fundamentals
 Sets of real numbers
 Absolute value
 Rectangular coordinates
 Equation of a circle
 Symmetry
 Inequalities
 Quadratic inequalities
 Other types of equations

Functions
 The definition of a function
 The graph of a function
 Shapes of graphs – Average rate of change
 Techniques in graphing
 Methods of combining functions: Composition
 Inverse functions

Polynomial and rational functions


 Maximum and minimum problems
 Polynomial functions
 Rational functions

Exponential and logarithmic functions


 Exponential functions
 The exponential function y = ex
 Logarithmic functions
 Properties of logarithms
 Equations involving logarithms and exponents

Trigonometry
 Algebra and the trigonometric functions
 Radian measure
 Radian measure and geometry
 Trigonometric functions of real numbers
 Graphs of sine and cosine functions including
y = Asin(Bx+C) and y = Acos(Bx+C)
 Trigonometric identities
 The addition formulars
 The Double-Angle formulas
 Trigonometric equations
 The inverse trigonometric functions

22. Prescribed Texts

 Cohen D et al, Precalculus: A problem oriented approach, Brookes/Cole


Publishing, 2005

23. Recommended Texts

 E.W. Swokowski and J.A. Cole, Precalculus: Functions and Graphs,


Brookes/Cole Publishing, 1998
 E.W. Swokowski and J.A. Cole, Precalulus, Thomson/Cole, 2008
 R. Larson, Precalculus: Functions and Graphs, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005

This Syllabus was presented to Senate on ………………… and approved by Senate on


……………

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