Mathematics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Methods of expository and heuristic teaching, depending on the contents to be taught.

Learning Outcomes

Students should consolidate or acquire fundamental Mathematics concepts  usually taught in Basic and Secondary levels of the Portuguese programs.

This curricular unit must create numerical and abstract skills and abilities that enable the students to follow with success  high-level science graduations and develop  critical reasoning, autonomous or group work, and adaptability to new situations, in order to facilitate their  learning in a future academic course

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Numerical expressions involving rational and irrational operations;

Equations and inequations of the 1st and 2nd grades;

Real functions of real variable: trigonometric functions and their inverse; rational and irrational functions and their inverse; logarithmic functions and their inverse; limits, derivatives and their applications.

Geometry in plane and space: straight lines, planes, conics and quadrics

Head Lecturer(s)

Helena Maria Mamede Albuquerque

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Continuous evaluation: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Manuais escolares dos ensinos básico e secundário.

Swokowski, E. W., Cálculo com Geometria Analítica, Vol. 1– 2ª edição, Makron Books, 1995.

Apostol, T, Cálculo – Vol. I – 2ª edição, Reverté, 1994.

Campos Ferreira, J., Introdução à Análise Matemática – 11ª edição, F. Calouste Gulbenkian, 2014.

Paulo Boulos e Ivan de C. Oliveira. Geometria Analítica-um tratamento vetorial, McGraw-Hill,São Paulo, 2a edição-2000.

Louis Leithold. O Cálculo com geometria analítica,Vol. 1, Harbra, São Paulo, 2a edição 1977.