COMMON COURSES FOR ETHIOPIAN HLIS

Draft Mathematics Common Course Syllabus for First

Year Natural Students

Prepared by:

1. Mekonnen Gudeta (MaddaWalabu University)

2. Mulugeta Naizghi (Addis Ababa University)

3. Tewodros Demissie (Jigjiga University)

June, 2019

Bishoftu

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 MATHEMATICS FOR NATURAL SCIENCES
(Math 101)

Course title: Mathematics for Natural Sciences

Credit hours: 4 (ECTS: 7) Tutorial hrs: 2

Course Description
The course intends to prepare science students in the basic concepts and materials from mathematics
that necessitate a good foundation to treat basic mathematical models in science. This course
rigorously discusses the basic concepts of logic and set theory, the real and complex number systems,
mathematical induction, least upper bound and greatest lower bound, functions and types of functions,
polynomial and rational functions, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions,
hyperbolic functions and their graphs and analytic geometry.

Course objectives:
Upon completion of the course, successful students will be able to:
 understand mathematical logic,
 apply logic in reasoning and mathematical proofs,
 use quantifiers in open propositions,
 understand concepts of sets and set operations,
 understand the fundamental properties of real and complex numbers,
 find least upper bound and greatest lower bound,
 use mathematical induction in proofs,
 write polar representation of complex numbers,
 understand different types of functions, their inverses and their graphs,
 find zeros of some polynomials,
 identify various forms of conic sections and derive their equations,
 use basic properties of logarithmic, exponential, hyperbolic, and trigonometric functions.

Chapter 1: Logic (13 hrs)

1.1. Definition and examples of proposition
1.2. Logical connectives
1.3. Compound (or complex) propositions
1.4. Tautology and contradiction
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 1.5. Open proposition and quantifiers

Chapter 2: The real and complex number systems (14 hrs)

2.1 The real number system
2.1.1. The natural numbers, Principle of mathematical induction and the Well ordering
principle
2.1.2. The integers, rational numbers and irrational numbers
2.1.3. Upper bound and lower bound: least upper bound and greatest lower bound; The
principle of mathematical induction
2.2. Complex number system
2.2.1. Definition of complex numbers and the underlying operations
2.2.2. Polar representation of complex numbers and the De-Moiver’s formula
2.2.3. Extraction of roots

Chapter 3: Functions (13 hrs)

3.1. Review of relations and functions
3.2. Real-valued functions and their properties
3.3. Types of functions (one-to-one, onto) and inverse of a function
3.4. Polynomials, zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and their graphs
3.5. Definitions and basic properties of logarithmic, exponential, hyperbolic, trigonometric
functions, and their graphs.

Chapter 4: Conic sections (14 hrs)

4.1. Circles
4.1.1. Definition of circle and examples
4.1.2. Equation of a circle centre at the origin and different from the origin.
4.1.3. Intersection of a circle and line; tangent line to the circle
4.2. Parabola
4.2.1. Definition of parabola and standard form of equation of parabola.
4.2.2. Equation of parabola of parabola parallel to the x-axis (the y-axis)
4.3. Ellipse
4.3.1. Definition of circle and examples
4.3.2. Equation of ellipse centre at the origin and different from the origin
4.4. Hyperbola
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 4.4.1. Definition of circle and examples
4.4.2. Equation of hyperbola of center at the origin transverse axis to x-axis (the y-axis)

Teaching –learning methods

Four contact hours of lectures and two hours of tutorials per week.
Assessment methods
• Assignments / quizzes / 20%
• Tests 40%
• Final examination 40%

Teaching materials
Redding and textbooks: -

 Alemayehu Haile and Yismaw Alemu, Mathematics an Introductory Course, Department of

Mathematics, AAU
 Abera Abay, An Introduction to Analytic Geometry, AAU, 1998