AHEAD COURSE MATHEMATICS FOR DECISION SCIENCES

The course is suggested to first-year students keen to review basic math principles before starting the course MATHEMATICS FOR DECISION SCIENCES 1 of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Digital Management. In particular, the course is strongly suggested for students with mandatory additional credits (OFA).
This prep course offers the opportunity to brush up on the knowledge of some math basics, often taken for granted and not revised at the university level, to allow students to start university studies with tranquillity and competence. Specifically, the module aims at reviewing basic math skills, acquired during the first 3-4 years of high school, to prepare students for the mathematics classes in the winter term.

Knowledge and understanding
- Properties of numbers (natural, integer, rational, real) and operations;
- Principles for solving polynomial, exponential, logarithmic equations and inequalities;
- Properties of elementary functions

Applying knowledge
- Handling of expressions with power elevation, exponential, and logarithm functions;
- Solving polynomial, exponential, logarithmic equations and inequalities
- Graphing functions

Basic math principles of intermediate school level

Properties and operations with numbers (natural, integer, rational, real). Powers with integer exponents. Roots. Powers with rational exponents and with real exponents. Polynomial algebra. First and second-degree equations. Higher degree equations. Fractional equations. First and second-degree inequalities. Equations and inequalities with terms in absolute value. Exponential and Logarithmic equations and inequalities. Systems of equations and inequalities. Cartesian coordinates in the plane. Straight lines and curves

Course material provided through the moodle platform.
Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis by Knut Sydsaeter, Peter Hammond, Arne Strom

A written exam consisting mainly of practical exercises regarding the topics faced during the course.

- Front lectures;
- Exercise sessions in class

English

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