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THIS MATERIAL IS SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED TOWARDS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN STUDENTS AT BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK THERE ARE A NUMBER OF LEAFLETS AND WEB PAGES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM THE WEB TO HELP YOU WITH FOUNDATION MATHEMATICS. THESE INCLUDE MATERIAL FROM TWO MAIN UK SOURCES: http://www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice/leafletsmathematics.html http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra Print the leaflets, or web pages, as necessary. To download, read and 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 USEFUL MATERIAL FROM THESE, AND OTHER, SITES ARE GIVEN IN THE FOLLOWING LIST. FOR A GENERAL PRACTICE TEST AT THIS LEVEL TRY http://decweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/ckeenan/docs/MathsSkill.pdf TO PRACTICE OR REVIEW PARTICULAR SECTIONS RELATING TO THE BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY DIAGNOSTIC QUIZ, TRY THESE. (Some leaflets/web pages appear in more than one section) SECTION A Basic mathematical operations: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/documents/arithmetic.pdf and http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/documents/Algebra1.pdf Expanding and removing brackets: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/brackets/resources and http://www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice/documents/algebra2.pdf Fraction, decimals and percentages: http://www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice/documents/linkingfractions.pdff Manipulation of fractions: http://www.hull.ac.uk/studyadvice/documents/fractions.pdf Algebraic Fractions: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/documents/Algebraicfractions.pdf Indices: http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/students.php/mathematics/algebra/powers/resources Powers of 10, Standard Form: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/powersof10.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/documents/Algebraicfractions.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/documents/algebra4.pdf Inequalities: http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/documents/inequalities.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/documents/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/documents/curvesketching.pdf SECTION E Types of triangle: http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=255 Angle properties: http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SubUnit&WCU=3775 Trig Functions: 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 (pedwards@bmth.ac.uk) if links become unobtainable. Don’t forget to access MathinSite for Mathematics Applets; MathinSite will be a recommended resource during your course. © P. Edwards, October 2003. Feedback to MathinSite MathinSite's applets are