TWO LEVEL ASSESSMENT: Each module's initial test/quiz will be online, via the iLearn page. Multiple attempts are allowed; the highest mark counts towards the student's grade. For Modules 2-6 inclusive, any student who achieves a sufficiently high mark in the initial test/quiz will be eligible to sit the distinction level assessment, which will take place on in the time slot labelled "Lecture 2" on your timetable (see iLearn). Passing these distinction level assessments is required for a grade of D or HD, but not for grades of P or Cr.

Requirements to Pass this unit

To pass this unit you must:

• To pass the online module's quiz for each of 1 to 6 modules, and
• Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%, and
• Participate in, and undertake all the Practice-based activities for a minimum of 10 of the 12 weekly SGTA classes.

Hurdle Assessments

Assessment 1: Passing of all online quizzes for each of 1 to 6 modules is the hurdle requirement to pass this unit. Details of the hurdle mark will be provided on the iLearn page of the unit.

Assessment 2: Practice-based skills for SGTA classes (0%)

Development of knowledge and skills requires continual practice. During SGTAs you will practice a range of mathematical techniques. To pass this hurdle assessment, you must be able to demonstrate your progress in developing and communicating knowledge and skills in 10 of the 12 SGTAs. This is a hurdle assessment meaning that failure to meet this requirement may result in a fail grade for the unit. Students are permitted up to three absences: additional absences will require a Special Consideration to be applied for (see below).

Late Assessment Submission Penalty

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day an  assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern.

Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment. If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Modules' Tests/Quizzes: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Weekly practice-based tasks for SGTA classes: To pass the unit you need to demonstrate ongoing development of skills and application of knowledge in 10 out of 12 of the weekly SGTA classes. If you miss a weekly SGTA class due to a serious, unavoidable and significant disruption, contact your convenor ASAP as you may be able to attend another class that week. If it is not possible to attend another class, you should still contact your convenor for access to class material to review in your own time. Note that a Special Consideration should only be applied for if you miss more than two of the weekly practical classes.

Classes

Lectures (beginning in Week 1): There is one one-hour lecture each week.

SGTA classes (beginning in Week 2): Students must register in and attend one two-hour class per week. This is a hurdle requirement. Missing more than two SGTA classes will result in failure of the unit.

Suggested textbooks 

No single book covers the content of MATH1000 precisely. Each of the following books (see links on the unit iLearn page) contains material useful and relevant to the unit.

'Main textbook (highly recommended but not compulsory) Calculus - single & multi variable, Hughes-Halley, Gleason & McCallum (7th edition), John Wiley. The library allow you to download a significant portion of the book. On the advanced search link for multi search, put in the title "calculus" and the author "Hughes-Hal let", and it is the first result. (You will see "7 versions of this record exist."). Choosing the seventh edition takes you to where you can obtain online access, and download or view pdfs.

As indicated in the title, the text is predominantly calculus. However, Chapter 1 contains excellent material for the algebra part of the unit, covering exponential, logarithms, trigonometry, and polynomials. Later sections in the text cover geometric series.