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ALTHOUGH THIS PAGE IS SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED TOWARDS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN STUDENTS AT BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK, THIS MATERIAL IS ALSO USEFUL FOR ANY STUDENT STUDYING MATHEMATICS AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL LISTED BELOW ARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM THE WEB TO HELP YOU WITH FOUNDATION MATHEMATICS. THIS MATERIAL IS MAINLY FROM TWO UK SOURCES: THE STUDY ADVICE SERVICES: Hull University, UK mathcentre, UK Download and print any of the leaflets, or web pages, as required. To print some of this material, you will need Acrobat Reader on your own computer. This is freely available from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html FOR A GENERAL PRACTICE TEST AT THIS LEVEL TRY http://dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/steps/documents/mathsskill.pdf TO PRACTICE OR REVIEW PARTICULAR SECTIONS OF THE BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DIAGNOSTIC QUIZ, TRY THE FOLLOWING: SECTION A (these section headings relate to those in the BU Maths Diagnostic Quiz) Basic algebraic operations: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algebra1.pdf Expanding and removing brackets: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/brackets/resources and http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algebra2.pdf Fraction, decimals and percentages: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/fractions.pdf http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/fractx100.pdf Algebraic Fractions: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algfractio.pdf Indices: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/powers/resources Powers of 10, Standard Form: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/powerf10.pdf Substitution in Formulae: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/substitution/resources SECTION B Expanding and removing brackets: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/brackets/resources Algebraic Fractions: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algfractio.pdf Simultaneous Equations: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/simultaneous_equations/resources Solving quadratic and Simultaneous Equations: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algebra4.pdf Inequalities: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/inequlits.pdf and http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/quadratic_inequalities/resources SECTION C Rearranging Equations and Transposing Formulae: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/algebra3.pdf and http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/transposition/resources SECTION D Straight line and quadratic curve sketching see the first few sections of: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/resources/maths/01pdfs/curveskch.pdf SECTION E Types of triangle: http://www.easycalculation.com/area/triangles-sides.php http://www.easycalculation.com/area/triangle-types.php Angle properties (nice applet, Jim!): http://argyll.epsb.ca/jreed/math9/strand3/triangle_angle_sum.htm Trig Functions (but note that "theta" on their web pages prints as a "q"): http://www.math.com/tables/trig/oppadjhyp.htm and http://www.math.com/tables/algebra/functions/trig/functions.htm Radians/Degrees: http://www.math.com/tables/algebra/functions/trig/units.htm and http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/mcaonline/units/trig/trigraddegrees.html Sine/Inverse sine: http://maths.sci.shu.ac.uk/mathshelp/Trigonometry%20-%20sine%20cosine%20etc/F2_trigonometry_of_triangles.pdf "All, sin, tan, cos"/Quadrants: http://home.alltel.net/okrebs/page73.html (colourful!) There are many links here. Please advise me in class or via e-mail if links become unobtainable. Don’t forget to access MathinSite for Mathematics Applets; MathinSite will be a recommended resource during your course. © P. Edwards, May 2006. Feedback to MathinSite MathinSite's applets are