Module Descriptors
QUANTITATIVE METHODS
MATH40324
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 4
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Debi Roberts
Email: debi.roberts@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • CLASS-TEST (Allocate slot on ExamTimetable SUG1) weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
Class test comprising multiple choice and written phase tests assessing learning outcomes 1 - 3.
Module Texts
Foundation Mathematics, K. A. Stroud & D. J. Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN-10: 0230579078, ISBN-13: 978-0230579071
Engineering Mathematics through Applications, Kuldeep Singh, Palgrave, 2011, ISBN-10: 0230274792, ISBN-13: 978-0230274792
Modern Engineering Mathematics, Glyn James, Prentice Hall, 2010, ISBN-10: 027373413X, ISBN-13: 978-0273734130
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Resources
PC's
Module Learning Strategies
Core theoretical material will be delivered through lectures (24 hours), while tutorial sessions (12 hours) will give opportunities to apply techniques to a variety of practical problems.

Delivery will typically be 2 hours lecture and 1 hour tutorial/practical per week.
Module Indicative Content
Numeracy:arithmetic operations, percentages, powers, roots, average.
Algebra: Laws of indices, logarithms, factorisation, solution of equations, transformation of formulae.
Trigonometry: graphs, general solution of simple trigonometric equations.
Calculus: differentiation of simple functions, products, quotients, composites; application to extrema problems; definite and indefinite integrals.