First Term Ss1 Further Mathematics 1

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FIRST TERM E- LEARNING NOTES

SUBJECT: FURTHER MATHEMATICS CLASS: SS1

SCHEME OF WORK

WEEK TOPIC
1 Indices: Basic Laws & Application of indices

2 Indicial and Exponential Equations

3 Logarithms - Laws and application

4 General review of basic concept of set theory

5 Operation of sets and Venn diagrams

6 Review of First Half Terms Lesson & Periodic Test

7 Binary operations and basic laws of binary operations (i) Definition (ii) Solution of simple problems
on binary operations (iii) Closure, commutative, associative and distributive laws

8 Binary operations continues: (i) Solution to problems on laws of binary operations (ii) Identity and
inverse elements of a given binary operations (iii) Addition and multiplication tables for binary
operations

9 Surds: (i) Definition of surds (ii) Rules and manipulation of surds (iii) Rationalization of surds at the
denominator and equality of surds.
10 Measures of central tendency: (i) Mean, Median and Mode of grouped and ungrouped data (ii)
Estimation of mode from the histogram of a grouped data.

11 Revision

12 Examination

REFERENCE(S)
 Further Mathematics project 1 by Tuttuh Adegun et al
 New General Mathematics for SSS1, SSS 2 and SSS 3 by M. F. Macrae et al

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WEEK ONE
TOPIC: INDICES
CONTENT
 Basic Concept of Laws of Indices
 Application of Laws of Indices
Basic Concept of Laws of Indices
A number of the form am where a is a real number, a is multiplied by itself m times,
The number a is called the base and the super script m is called the index (plural indices) or exponent.
1. a m x a n = am + n --------------------Multiplication law

Example: p3 x p2 = ( p x p x p) x (p x p) = p 5

Or p3 x p2 = p 3 + 2 = p5

2. am ÷ an = am - n ---------------------Division law
Example: p6 ÷ p4 = p 6 - 4 = p2

3. (a m )n = amn ----------------Power law


Example: (p3)2 = p3 x p3 = p 3 + 3 = p6
Or p3 x 2 = p6

4. am ÷ a m = am - m = a 0 = 1
am ÷am = am/am = ao = 1
a0 = 1 ………………………Zero Index
Note : Any number raised to power of zero is 1

Example: 3o = 1, co = 1, yo = 1

5. (ab)m = ambm -------------Product power law


e.g. (2xy)2 = 4x2y2

6. a – m = 1/am ------------- Negative Index


Example: 2 -1 = ½, and 3 -2 = 1/3 2 = 1/9

7. a1/n = n√a -------------- Root power law


Example : 9 ½ = √9 = 3
27 1/3 =3√27 = 3 ie (3)3 = 3

8. a m/n = (a 1/n) m = (n√a)m -----------Fraction Index


or a m/n = (am) 1/n = (n√a)m

Example: 272/3 = 3√27 = 32 = 9.

Evaluation
1. 275/3 2. 10000000000 3. 2x-1 x 22x+2

Application of Laws of Indices

Examples
Solve the following…

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