Number systems: historical development and current systems, types of numbers, operations on numbers and their properties, scientific notion, estimation; relationships between numbers: graphs and functions, rates of change, modelling; quantitative data: graphical and numerical description, inference production and evaluation. Applications and examples selected from a range of disciplines. Intended for students with little or no mathematics background.
Number systems: historical development and current systems, types of numbers, operations on numbers and their properties, scientific notion, estimation; relationships between numbers: graphs and functions, rates of change, modelling; quantitative data: graphical and numerical description, inference production and evaluation. Applications and examples selected from a range of disciplines. Intended for students with little or no mathematics background.
