This course deals with a number of basic mathematical concepts that will be used during your study and/or work life. When you have worked through this unit you will be able to:

• Understand the number system and relationships between sizes of objects
• Appreciate and work with some basic elements in algebra and algebraic manipulation
• Solve simple and simultaneous equations and transpose equations
• Apply rounding rules to the results of calculations
• Calculate binomial coefficients
• Use an extended set of calculator functions