General Assessment Information

HURDLES: Attendance at, and reasonable engagement in, Small Group Teaching Activities (SGTA) classes in all first year mathematics and statistics units is compulsory. Attendance and reasonable engagement in the class activities in at least 10 out of 12 of the SGTA classes are requirements to pass the unit. This is a hurdle requirement.

Major Test 1 is also a hurdle.  Details available on iLearn.

ATTENDANCE and PARTICIPATION: Please contact the unit convenor as soon as possible if you have difficulty attending and participating in any classes. There may be alternatives available to make up the work. If there are circumstances that mean you will miss a class, you can apply for Special Consideration via ask.mq.edu.au

ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION: Assignment submission will be online through the iLearn page.

Submit assignments online via the appropriate assignment link on the iLearn page. A personalised cover sheet is not required with online submissions. Read the submission statement carefully before accepting it as there are substantial penalties for making a false declaration.

• Assignment submission is via iLearn. You should upload this as a single scanned PDF file.
• Please note the quick guide on how to upload your assignments provided on the iLearn page.
• Please make sure that each page in your uploaded assignment corresponds to only one A4 page (do not upload an A3 page worth of content as an A4 page in landscape). If you are using an app like Clear Scanner, please make sure that the photos you are using are clear and shadow-free.
• It is your responsibility to make sure your assignment submission is legible.
• If there are technical obstructions to your submitting online, please email us to let us know.

You may submit as often as required prior to the due date/time. Please note that each submission will completely replace any previous submissions. It is in your interests to make frequent submissions of your partially completed work as insurance against technical or other problems near the submission deadline.

LATE SUBMISSION OF WORK:  All assessment tasks must be submitted by the official due date and time. In the case of a late submission for a non-timed assessment (for example, an assignment), if special consideration has NOT been granted, 20% of the earned mark will be deducted for each 24-hour period (or part thereof) that the submission is late for the first 2 days (including weekends and/or public holidays). For example, if an assignment is submitted 25 hours late, its mark will attract a penalty equal to 40% of the earned mark. After 2 days (including weekends and public holidays) a mark of 0% will be awarded. Timed assessment tasks (for example, tests and examinations) do not fall under these rules.

FINAL EXAM POLICY: It is Macquarie University policy not to set early examinations for individuals or groups of students. All students are expected to ensure that they are available until the end of the teaching semester, that is, the final day of the official examination period. The only excuse for not sitting an examination at the designated time is because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these special circumstances, you may apply for special consideration via ask.mq.edu.au.

If you receive special consideration for the final exam, a supplementary exam will be scheduled in the interval between the regular exam period and the start of the next session. By making a special consideration application for the final exam you are declaring yourself available for a resit during this supplementary examination period and will not be eligible for a second special consideration approval based on pre-existing commitments. Please ensure you are familiar with the policy prior to submitting an application.

You can check the supplementary exam information page on FSE101 in iLearn (bit.ly/FSESupp) for dates, and approved applicants will receive an individual notification one week prior to the exam with the exact date and time of their supplementary examination.

Lectures:  There are 2 one-hr online lectures each week. Students are strongly encouraged to attend both lectures each week.

SGTA (hurdle requirement): You should attend and participate in one Small Group Teaching Activity (SGTA) each week, starting from Week 2.  Students must participate in the SGTA in which they are enrolled. Any variation to this has to be approved by the convenor. Attendance at, and reasonable engagement in, 10 of the 12 SGTAs is a hurdle requirement.

This unit will use: iLearn; students need regular access to a reliable internet connection. MATLAB; students need regular access to the computer program MATLAB (available for download onto personally owned devices, and on computers around campus).

Textbook: Algebra - Lay, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 5th edition. Calculus - Stewart, Calculus (Metric Version), 8th edition.

Algebra: Matrices (Review), Vectors, Linear Combinations, Elementary Matrices, Inverse Matrices, Matrices, LU Decomposition, Determinants, Adjugates, Linear Dependence, Vector Spaces & Subspaces, Bases & Dimension, Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors, Eigenspaces & Diagonalisation, Powers of Matrices, Linear Transformations, Matrix of a Linear Transformations, Composition of Linear Transformations.

Calculus: Limits, Improper Integrals, Indeterminate Forms, Continuity, IVT, Newton's Method, Rolle's Theorem, MVT, Numerical Integration, Complex Numbers, Argand Plane, Polar Form, De Moivre's Theorem, Polynomials, Taylor Polynomials, Infinite Series, Functions of Several Variables, Partial Derivatives, Directional Derivatives, Extrema, 2nd-order ODEs, Systems of ODEs.