School of Population Health
Further information
Where and when
- Seminar Rooms 3-4, Clifton Street Building, Nedlands Campus
- Wednesday 17 February 2010, from 8.45am until 3pm. (Semester one starts the following week.)
- Note that the Postgraduate Orientation session will be held on Wednesday 17 February 2010 at 4pm in Seminar Rooms 3/4.
Costs
- SPH students/staff: $50
- Non-SPH students/staff: $75/$100
- International students at SPH: free
- Bookings and payment can be made by t-form or cash to Denise Bracken in the SPH Administration Office, Clifton Street building, Nedlands Campus UWA.
- Online booking with shopping cart for credit card payments will be open from 1 December 2009.
We have developed a special workshop to help you build your confidence and get ahead of the game in time for first semester 2010.
The Survival Maths workshop is ideal if you:
- are planning to do a unit like Biostatistics that requires scientific calculator skills
- have a big project research planned with lots of analysis
- can’t remember how to use your scientific calculator
- have forgotten all your high school maths
- just want a jump-start.
At the workshop you can learn or recapture your mathematics skills in a supportive and patient environment.
While priority will be given to those students enrolled in Biostatistics I (Postgraduate) in semester one 2010 - other staff and students will be welcome to attend.
Course content
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Inequalities, absolute values and percentages
- Indices (or powers)
- Terminating and recurring decimals
- Special numbers: e and π
- Logarithms
- Order of operations
- Significant figures, rounding and scientific notation
- Pronumerals
- Statistical pronumerals
- Substituting into expressions and formulae
- Substituting into formulae with symbols
- Using calculator memory
- Solving equations
- Summation and multiplication symbols
- Calculator statistics functions
Survival maths will cover basic mathemetical skills and scientific calculator use prior to postgraduate Biostatistics I (PUBH8753) which starts the following week.
Contact
Asst/Prof Alexandra Bremner
- Location
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School of Population Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
The University of Western Australia
M431, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 - Phone
- (+61 8) 6488 3386
- Fax
- (+61 8) 6488 1188
The Sharp EL-531WH scientific calculator will be used in this course, and is available from the UWA Co-op Bookshop.
School of Population Health
University information
CRICOS Code: 00126G
