NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA

MEDELLIN HEADQUARTERS
BASIC MATHEMATICS PROGRAM
SEMESTER 02-2019

GENERAL CONTENT OF THE SUBJECT:

This program consists of six chapters, which it is suggested in the semester be taught according
to the following distribution of classes per chapter:

1. Sets and Number Systems (Classes 1 to 2).

2. Algebra (Classes 3 to 8).
3. Equations and Elementary Geometry (Classes 8 to 14).
4. Modeling using equations and Inequalities (Classes 15 to 16).
5. Royal Functions (Classes 17 to 20).
6. Trigonometry (Classes 21 to 24).

APPROXIMATE DISTRIBUTION OF TOPICS BY CLASS

SEMESTER 02 OF 2019

CLASS TOPICS

Notions about sets: set, element, empty set, finite set, infinite set.
1
Operations between sets: inclusion, union, intersection, complement,
difference, symmetric difference. Examples: Number systems.
Properties of real numbers, operations with fractions. The number line.
2 Order and intervals: order properties, intervals. Absolute value and distance,
properties of absolute value.
Exponents and radicals: integer exponents, laws of exponents, radicals,
3
rational exponents. Algebraic expressions: polynomials.
Operations between polynomials. Remarkable products. Division of
4
polynomials: long division of polynomials, synthetic division.
Real zeros of polynomials. Remainder and factor theorems. Theorem of
5
rational zeros.
6 Factoring.
Independent Definition of n factorial . Combinations (binomial coefficient). Binomial
study theorem. See support material on Moodle.
Rational expressions: simplification, multiplication and division, addition
7
and subtraction. Compound fractions, rationalization.
Equations: linear equations. Equations: quadratic equations, other types of
equations. Equation and graph of a circle in the Cartesian plane.
8 and 9
System of two linear equations in two variables.
 Angles and lines, measurement of angles, relationships between angles,
10 and 11 angles between parallel lines. Solution of simple linear equations.
Triangles, Classification of triangles, lines and notable points in a triangle.
Congruence of triangles.

12 and 13 Similarity of triangles. Area and perimeter of plane figures: rectangle,

square, parallelogram, triangle, trapezoid, circle. Pythagoras theorem.
Volume and surface area of solids: parallelepiped, right circular cylinder,
14
right circular cone and sphere.
Modeling using equations: Some criteria for modeling problems with
15
equations, examples.
Inequalities: usual rules and techniques for solving inequalities, examples.
16
Inequalities with absolute value.

17 Functions: definition, domain, range, evaluation, graph. Vertical line test.

Linear functions (slope, intercept, parallel lines and perpendicular lines).
Functions Defined by Sections. Absolute Value Function. Functions of the
18
form: xn and x n .
1/

Even functions and odd functions. Algebra of functions: Sum, difference,

19 product, quotient. Composition of functions and their respective domains.

Injective, surjective and bijective functions.

Independent
study Inverse Function (Definition, graph of the inverse function and examples).
See support material on Moodle.
20 Exponential function. Logarithmic Function. Properties of logarithms.
Angles. Trigonometric functions of angles. Reference angle. Application
21
(area of a triangle).
Trigonometry applications of right triangles. Law of sine and law of cosine.
22
Examples.
Unit circumference. Periodic function. Trigonometric functions of real
23
numbers and their graphs.
Trigonometric identities, simplification of trigonometric expressions,
24 demonstration of trigonometric identities, addition and subtraction formulas,
formulas for the double angle and for the semi-angle.
Independent Trigonometric equations . See support material on Moodle.
study

Independent study topic: The topics in red must be studied by each person independently,
with the support of videos on YouTube (links in Moodle) and class notes.
ASSESSMENT
 WORTH ISSUE DATE
classes 1 to 7
Quiz 1 23% workshops 1 to 4 October 31 or
November 1
classes 8 to 15
Quiz 2 23% workshops 5 to 8 November 26 or 27

classes 16 to 20
Quiz 3 24% workshops 9 to 11 December 19 or 20

January 25
Classes 1 to 24
Final exam 30% (Saturday)
Workshops 1 to 13
Time to be confirmed

Observations about the in-person evaluation:

1. The quizes will be done in class and in each group. The date and content of these are
subject to modifications that your teacher considers appropriate.
2. The final exam requires presentation of an identity document and punctuality.
3. The Final Exam has the status of an Admission Exam and for this reason prevails over
any other academic activity of the university. This exam does not have a supplement.

GOALS

1. Offer the newly admitted student, and with poor mathematical training, the opportunity
to level up in topics that are part of the official secondary education programs in
mathematics and whose knowledge is an essential prerequisite for the Differential
Calculus subject.
2. Develop basic skills for handling arithmetic operations and between sets.
3. Achieve adequate handling of algebraic expressions.
4. Review elements of basic Euclidean geometry and elementary trigonometry.

METHODOLOGY

• The master course modality consists of an integrated system of classes, workshops and
consultancies.
• Each master course has two classes a week, two hours each, and are attended by regular
professors, postgraduate academic monitors and in exceptional cases by occasional
teachers.
• The student of a master course has the option of attending a weekly two-hour
workshop, which serves as reinforcement for the theoretical class and is led by a
postgraduate or undergraduate academic monitor. Likewise, the student can be assisted
individually in the advice offered by various professors.
 • The advice is provided by both regular professors and postgraduate and undergraduate
academic monitors. In the advisory sessions, the student consults theoretical doubts and
receives guidance on the exercises that he could not solve in his personal work.
• All information related to the course can be found on the Moodle platform:

https://unvirtual.medellin.unal.edu.co/

Please select Faculty of Sciences ^ School of Mathematics ^ Basic Mathematics,

and then Enroll in said course.

REFERENCES

GUIDE TEXT: Stewart, J., L. Redlin and S. Watson, Precalculus, mathematics for calculus,
6th. Ed., Cengage Learning, 2012.

Author(s) Qualification Year

University mathematics. Fourth edition. McGraw-
Allendoerfer C. and Oakley C.
Hill.
Mathematics prior to calculus. Third edition.
Leithold Louis 1998
Oxford University Press.
Algebra and trigonometry, Ninth edition.
Swokowski E. and Cole J. 1997
International Thomson publishers
Wisniewski PM and Gutierrez Introduction to university mathematics. Shaum
2003
AL Series, McGraw-Hill
Puerta O., Fernando, Asmar C., Basic Mathematics Leveling Course.
Iván Francisco and Asmar C., School of Mathematics. National University of 2006
Abraham José Colombia – Medellín Headquarters.