New BSC Sylabus Details
New BSC Sylabus Details
New BSC Sylabus Details
BSC.ED
GODERICH CAMPUS
SEPTEMBER 2018
AIM OF THE SYLLABUS
To equip the mathematics graduate with skills and knowledge they required in teaching mathematics effectively at both junior and senior
secondary schools.
b) To provide background materials and understanding of the principles required for the teaching of the subject in secondary schools.
c) To give student appreciation of the precision and aesthetic appeal of the language of mathematics.
COMPLEX NUMBERS
• The rules for the manipulation of complex numbers
• The geometrical representation of complex numbers
• The geometry of complex numbers
• The cube root of unity
FINITE SEQUENCES AND SERIES
• Sequences and series
• The arithmetic sequence and series
• The finite geometric sequence and series
• The infinite geometric series
THE BINOMIAL THEOREM
• The binomial theorem for positive integral index
• Proof of the binomial theorem when n is a positive integer
• The binomial theorem when n is not a positive a positive integer
• Mathematical induction
4.Micro teaching:- a) definition, purpose and importance, seven micro teaching skills:-
Introduction, Demonstrations, Illustration with examples, Reinforcement variation,
Explanation, Questioning (characteristics of good questioning)
b) Stimulant micro teaching of selected topics from the school mathematics syllabus
(preparatory to final year teaching practices).
5. History of mathematics numerical system, primitive aspects of number, Egyptian,
Roman, Babylonian, Hindu-Arabic numerical.
6. Contribution to the development of mathematics by Great mathematicians like
Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle Euclid, Descartes, Fermat, Galileo, Newton etc
7. Research work: a) Preliminaries to research work:-meaning and purpose of research,
pitfalls in undertaking previous research, research proposals, choosing a topic for
investigation(search for researchable topic, replication of previous studies of interest,
restricting the topic, statement of the problem, expressing topic as a thesis statement
hypothesis
b) Types of research(categories of research topics),methods of collection and analysing
data, organization and presentation of research papers, pagination, title page, abstract,
acknowledgement etc bibliography, tables and graph etc, referencing in research:-
plagiarism referencing within the test, referencing within the bibliography.
Arrangements and selections: (permutation and combination and their application to 3
probability) use of tree diagrams.
Elementary probability: independent events, mutually exclusive events, conditional
probability.
PROBABILITY MATH 227 Random variables: discrete and continuous.
THEORIES Relative frequency, interpretation of probability, independent events, mutually exclusive
event, laws of probability. Axioms of probability, finite probability spaces, conditional
probability and statistical independent, total probability rule, Bayes rule.
The concept of standard scores, transforming test into standard form. Z- Scores and T-
score.
Independent, independent of repeated trails, discrete probability distributions, continuous
probability distribution, mathematical expectation.
The binomial normal and Poisson distribution, normal approximations to the binomial
distributions, central limit theorem.
• Estimation of means, totals and their variances, sample sizes, properties and
disadvantages of each design. Regression and ratio estimation
• Probability Distributions ( one and two dimensional discrtete cases)
• Marginal distributions
• Probability Distributions ( one and two dimensional continuous cases)
• Marginal probabilities
• Cumulative distribution function (discrete and continuous case)
• Relationship between Cumulative distribution function and the probability density
function
• Notation of independence demonstrated by
I. 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝑓(𝑥)𝑓(𝑦) 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠
II. 𝐸(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝐸(𝑥)𝐸(𝑦) 𝑖. 𝑒. 𝑐𝑜𝑣 (𝑥, 𝑦) = 0
III. 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠
IV. Bayes theorem
V. Use of statistical tables
• Bernoulli trials (Expectation and variance)
• Binomial, Hypergeometric, Poisson, geometric and their applications
• Some special types of continuous distributions, uniform distributions, normal
distribution, T-distribution, F-distribution, Chi-square distribution
• Central limit theorem
Law of large numbers
Vector Algebra: revision of basic definitions, position vector, velocities, acceleration and 3
forces in a plane, differentiation and integration of a vector with respect to a scalar variable,
scalar product of two vectors- Application to geometry, angle between two vectors, the
proof of cosine law etc. work done by vector. Vector product of two vectors ( The cross
APPLIED product), moment defined as 𝑟 × 𝐹, applications of vector methods to geometry
MATHEMATICS 1 MATH 228 • Scalar and vector multiplication involving four vectors
• Differentiation of scalar and vector products
𝑑 𝑑 𝑑
• 𝑑𝑡
(𝐴. 𝐵 )
𝑑𝑡
(𝐴 × 𝐵 )
𝑑𝑡
(𝐴. 𝐵 × 𝐶 ) etc
• Application to differential geometry: the tangent, normal and Binormal, Frenet’s
formulae
• Solution of simple vector differential equations
𝑑𝑣 𝑑2𝑟 𝑑𝑟
• = 𝑘𝑣 + 2𝑘 𝑑𝑡 + (𝑘 2 + 𝑛 2 )𝑟 = 0 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡 2
Statics: forces treated as a vector, coplanar forces at a point, their resultant and the triangle
of forces, equilibrium of a plane lamina suspended from a point acting at a point or placed
on an inclined plane, equilibrium of a particle under a coplanar force, weight, normal and
frictional components of contact forces, tension and thrust, friction and coefficient of
friction, simple cases of equilibrium of rigid bodies
reduction to a system of forces to a force and / or couple, general conditions for equilibrium
( involving friction, toppling, incline planes, stability of equilibrium
Kinematics: Motion in a straight line with constant acceleration, velocity-time and other
graphs, relative velocity, motion of a projectile in one and two dimensions under gravity,
motion in a straight line with variable acceleration, acceleration as a function of
displacement or time, motion of a horizontal circle with constant velocity, simple harmonic
motion and its relationship to motion in a circle
Dynamics: Newton’s laws of motion, application of Newton’s laws to the motion of two
connected particles, notions of work, power, impulse and energy, consequences of
Newton’s laws, conservation of linear momentum and elastic springs and strings, Hooke’s
law, motion of a particle in a vertical circle, momentum, direct impact, Newton’s law of
restitution, direct impact of elastic bodies, loss of mechanical energy due to impact,
elastic collisions in two dimensions- oblique impact of smooth elastic spheres and a smooth
sphere with a fixed surface, motion of a projectile on incline planes, angular momentum
and its conservation, equation opf linear momentum, angular velocity and acceleration,
equilibrium of rigid bodies, impulsive motion of a rigid body.
DETAIL SYLLABUS
YEAR 111 (QUALIFYING)
FIRST SEMESTER
COURSE COURSE COURSE CREDIT
TITLE CODE CONTENT HOUR(S)
Groups: Definition and simple properties of groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, 3
permutations, symmetric groups, cosets, normal subgroups, factor groups,
ABSTRACT MATH 314 Homomorphism and Isomorphism of group, Sylow theorems
ALGEBRA
Rings and Fields: Rings, subrings, Ideals, integral domains, Quotient Rings, Field of
quotients, Homomorphism of rings, prime and maximal ideals, polynomials,
polynomial Rings and field construction, Isomorphism of rings,
Euclidean domains, principal ideal domains, diviusiopn rings, direct sums of rings
Fields, field extensions, finite fields, Galois theory, modules over rings, abelian
groups, solvable and nilpotent groups, tattices, categories.
Fields:- Definition of field, Polynomial Rings and field construction
• First order differential equations: Separable variables, homogeneous exact and 3
linear equations, the equations of Bernoulli, Ricatti and Clairants substitutions
CALCULUS 111 MATH 316 • Applications: Orthogonal Trajectories, growth and decay, cooling, circuits and
chemical mixtures
• Linear Differential Equations of higher order: The method of undetermined
coefficients, reduction of order and variation of parameters.
• Integral functions
• The gamma and beta functions
• Fourier series: calculations of coefficients, odd and even functions, expansion
of a given function as a Fourier series, functions defined in the half –integral
• Fourier integrals, Integral transforms
• Laplace transforms, Inverse Laplace transforms
• Solutions of Ordinary differential equations using Laplace transforms
• Power Series Solutions: Solutions around ordinary points and around regular
singular points, modelling of physical problems and interpretation of the
analytic or graphical solution.
The cross or vector product: area of a triangle and parallelogram, vector triple 3
products, volume of a parallelepiped, proof that three given vectors are coplanar,
vector equation of line and planes, intersection of two planes intersection of a line and
APPLIED
a plane.
MATHEMATICS MATH 318
11 Advance vector algebra.
Vector function of a single variable: vector function of the form
r = f(f)a + g(t)b where a and b are constant vectors differentiation of such a vector
function, application to kinematics of a particles moving in a straight line and in a
plane.
Integration of vectors
Parabolic projectiles
Year 111
SECOND SEMESTER
COURSE COURSE COURSE CREDIT
TITLE CODE CONTENT HOUR(S)