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This web page is designed to provide support materials for the course:

UNP7181/2/3/4 MATHEMATICS COMMUNICATION.

There are thirteen sessions in each course. They are outlined below together with the support materials or useful web sites. Students also need to present student problems. Some useful material is outlined below (Student problem).

Session	Topic	Power Point Slides	Support
1	Introduction	session1	unit spec;
2	Stockmarket	session 2;	graphs of interest; updated companies and sectors
3	Jellied Snakes		to be developed;
4	Readability		to be developed
5	Tell me a story	session 4	similar graphs;
6	Drinks graphs	session 6	graph A and graph B reproduced; CAP; interesting sites; more sites; BAC levels
7	Calculating BAC	alcohol session 7
6b	Smoking graphs	smoking session 5 & 6;	alternative session 6; interesting sites;
7b	Smoking calculations	session 7;	USQ policy
8	Dart board		similar problem
9	Logic		extension to problem 1
10	Swimming Pool		to be developed
11	Density	session 11	density of common objects;
12	Evaluation	session 12
13	Revision		sample revision test

Student Problems: many of these problems require you to graph your solutions. You can use programs such as graphmatica for this. You may wish to read the basic structure for making an effective speech (from your EAP tutor) but available here.

Problem	Mathematics topics and support sites
Trail Bike	percentages picture of trail bike
Partnerships	percentages
Earth on a string	measurement
Investment	stock market definitions
Making Money	interest rates
Drips & Drops	nursing drug calculations; cartoon
Car Economics	ratios and measurement
Dropped ball	exponential decay similar problem
Thick Paper	exponential growth similar problem
Sports Lights	trigonometry picture of lighting
Making Tea	simultaneous equations
Card Shark	probability; pack of cards
Random Students	probability
Handshakes	formulas
Artists Problem	measurement
Weighty problem	mean, median, mode
Tree Statistics	scatterplots
Tong	probability
See-saw	trigonometry
Students problem	ratio and proportion and percentage
Money exchange	ratio and proportion; exchange rates site
Clown Game	probability
Mahjong	probability game

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