Course title in Estonian
Matemaatika
Course title in English
Mathematics
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2025/2026 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To provide students with the knowledge and skills in basic school arithmetic and algebra.
Brief description of the course
Numbers, numerals, number systems. Calculating with whole numbers, decimal and common fractions. Conversion of units. Finding the part of the whole; finding the whole by part. Calculating percentages. Sector diagram. Scientific notation. Monomials and polynomials. Calculus formulas. Factoring polynomials. Algebraic fractions.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- can convert numbers from one number system to another;
- knows the characteristics of the divisibility of natural numbers and can apply them;
- can perform all basic calculations with whole numbers, decimal and common fractions;
- knows and can solve standard problems with percentages;
- distinguishes monomials and polynomials; can perform all mathematical operations with them;
- knows calculus formulas and can to apply them;
- can perform all mathematical operations with algebraic fractions.
The course is a prerequisite
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