Dealing with Numbers
SSK17
Overview
Level of study: What does Undergraduate Level 1 mean?
Undergraduate Level 1
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
No
Duration:
13 weeks
Description
Worried about your basic maths skills? Feel like you've never really 'understood' maths? Like to be able to critically evaluate newspaper articles that quote statistics or show tables and graphs? Numerical information is becoming increasingly prevalent in everyday life. Read a newspaper, consult with your GP, or talk with your financial advisor - some of the information you'll be given will be in the form of numbers and graphs. This unit covers the basic skills required to interpret the numerical information you meet in everyday life. It also provides a solid grounding in the mathematical skills assumed in many undergraduate units.
Please note: Assessment values are indicative only; details will be advised at the start of the unit.
Assessment
- Invigilated Exam (40%)
- Online assessment (30%)
- Project (30%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will have:
- the ability to read varied text
- the ability to write diverse document types
- proficiency in the use of technological communication tools
- competence in a range of general and specific text types (ie. graphs/charts/statistics/written word)
- numeracy skills
- the ability to construct arguments
- learner organisational skills
- research skill
- learner awareness (style, motivation, etc.)
- the ability to work autonomously and with peers.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Basic numeracy skills (including percentages, proportions and fractions; percentage change adn negative numbers |
| 2 | Basic algebra |
| 3 | Introduction to summation notation |
| 4 | Basic graphs (bar charts, histograms, line graphs time series graphs and scatterplots) |
| 5 | Producing and interpreting tables |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Print based materials
- Welcome Letter
Online materials
- Printable format materials
Relevant Courses
This unit is not currently a requirement for any courses, but may be eligible for credit.
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
