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Prep Math:
Calculus and Statistics
By Dr Lee Hon Sing
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Welcome to NUS Business School!

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Module Description:
• This is a short course that prepares the fresh
undergraduates for the Mathematics that they will
encounter in their first year of Business courses. In
particular it focuses on the area of Calculus and
Statistics only.
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Rationale
• Fresh Business undergraduates have different
Mathematics mastery and preparedness when they
come to the Business school. Some have forgotten
the Mathematics they learned two years ago due to
serving their National Service. Some did not come
from Junior Colleges and missed taking the
equivalent of “O” level Additional Mathematics.
This different level of Mathematics mastery among
students caused difficulties in the pedagogy of the
first year Business courses. This subject aims to
bridge the gap among students’ Mathematics
mastery.
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Syllabus
• The topics to be covered include:
• 1) Indices and surds
• 2) Power, exponential, logarithmic and modulus functions
• 3) Coordinate geometry in two dimensions
• 4) Equations and inequalities
• 5) Functions
• 6) Differentiation and Integration
• 7) Sequences and series
• 8) Basic probability rules
• 9) Mean, variance, mode, median
• 10) Covariance and conditional probability
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Expectations
• 5 hours of lecture video
• 4 hours of revision
• 1 hour of online quiz
• Closed book, with calculator, unlimited attempts
• Requires earning a passing grade, else student has to
retake the course, till they pass before graduation.
• Enjoy the course! 