Course Overview
The goals of this course are to provide the student with some of the mathematical skills needed to solve problems which will be encountered in the Sustainable Resource Management programs, and in future employment in related industrial settings. The student will use words and diagrams to present organized solutions to these problems, and to draw relevant conclusions from these solutions. To prepare these solutions, the student will be exposed to methods for effective use of calculators and the EXCEL spreadsheet software in some hands-on computer labs. The course includes field-related word problems, ratio, proportion and variation; mensuration including applications of geometry, trapezoidal and Simpson's rules; functions and graphs.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.5
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Determine accuracy and precision, use ratios, proportions, and percentages to solve scale, mixture and dilution, variation and change problems.
- Use right triangle trigonometric ratios to solve typical problems of slope and horizontal distances, latitudes and departures, tree heights, etc. These ratios will be related to the commonly used measurement systems for slopes in percent units, and compass bearings in field measurements.
- Apply a variety of geometrical models to approximate the areas and volumes of physical objects, including cylinders, cones and regular solids.
- Apply Trapezoidal Rule and Simpson's Rule to directly measured distances from maps to determine area and volume estimates for irregular objects such as plots of ground and lake volumes.
- Apply Sine and Cosine Laws to determine angles and distances in irregular triangles, and relate these results back to standard measurement systems of slope and bearing measurements.
- Apply linear functions and graphs to the solution of relevant problems.
- Use systems of equations with two or three variables to solve mixture and related problems.
Effective as of Fall 2008
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