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Policy Statements

Vision

  • To assist students in acquiring a conceptual understanding of the nature and structure of Mathematics and motivate them to apply various mathematical techniques in their respective filed.

Mission

  • To transform young people to competent and motivated professionals with sound theoretical and practical knowledge.
  • To produce Graduate students with strong foundation for further studies in the discipline
  • To create an atmosphere to produce graduates with an inclination for research.
  • To provide mathematical experience, exploring and learning opportunities and relevant applications in the study and understanding of quantities by examining relationships, patterns and structures, operations, and measurements, as expressed by numbers and symbols.

Objectives

  • Enable students with diverse academic, technical, and personal mathematical background to :
  • Apply critical and logical thinking to problem solving.
  • Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies, including technology to investigate mathematical conjectures, to solve problems, and to judge the reasonableness of the results.
  • Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships.
  • Understand the role of mathematics in society.
  • Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through written and oral communication.
  • Build individual confidence in their abilities to understand and apply mathematics.