Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman

MAT037 is an intensive Mathematics course for pre-diploma students (Pre-Commerce) at Universiti Teknologi MARA. It is crucial for the lecturers to have a proper planning on teaching the course. This course includes six chapters, which are arithmetic and algebra (C1), equation and function (C2), inde...

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Main Authors: Nik Badrul Alam, Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim, Ismail, Nazihah, Dasman, Anisah
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spelling my.uitm.ir.566232022-03-31T07:27:43Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56623/ Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman Nik Badrul Alam, Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Ismail, Nazihah Dasman, Anisah Teaching (Principles and practice) Institutions of higher education QA Mathematics MAT037 is an intensive Mathematics course for pre-diploma students (Pre-Commerce) at Universiti Teknologi MARA. It is crucial for the lecturers to have a proper planning on teaching the course. This course includes six chapters, which are arithmetic and algebra (C1), equation and function (C2), index and logarithm (C3), sequence (C4), introduction to applications of mathematics in business (C5), and introduction to statistics (C6). The objective of this research is to rank the MAT037 chapters based on their importance. The fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used to rank the chapters. The use of fuzzy AHP which to produce the ranking helps the decision makers to make comparison of which chapter is more important than the other and the vagueness of the judgements was handled by the fuzzy basis which cannot be done by the classical AHP. The triangular fuzzy numbers were used to fuzzify the crisp values, and the centre of area defuzzification method was used at the end of the steps. The results showed that C1 is the most important topic meanwhile C4 is the least important among the chapters. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/56623/1/56623.pdf (2021) Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman. Gading Journal of Science and Technology, 4 (2). pp. 42-49. ISSN e-ISSN: 2637 – 0018 http://www.gadingst.learningdistance.org/index.php/gadingst/article/view/156/136
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Nik Badrul Alam, Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim
Ismail, Nazihah
Dasman, Anisah
Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
description MAT037 is an intensive Mathematics course for pre-diploma students (Pre-Commerce) at Universiti Teknologi MARA. It is crucial for the lecturers to have a proper planning on teaching the course. This course includes six chapters, which are arithmetic and algebra (C1), equation and function (C2), index and logarithm (C3), sequence (C4), introduction to applications of mathematics in business (C5), and introduction to statistics (C6). The objective of this research is to rank the MAT037 chapters based on their importance. The fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was used to rank the chapters. The use of fuzzy AHP which to produce the ranking helps the decision makers to make comparison of which chapter is more important than the other and the vagueness of the judgements was handled by the fuzzy basis which cannot be done by the classical AHP. The triangular fuzzy numbers were used to fuzzify the crisp values, and the centre of area defuzzification method was used at the end of the steps. The results showed that C1 is the most important topic meanwhile C4 is the least important among the chapters.
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title Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
title_short Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
title_full Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
title_fullStr Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
title_full_unstemmed Prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Nik Muhammad Farhan Hakim Nik Badrul Alam, Nazihah Ismail and Anisah Dasman
title_sort prioritizing chapter importance for intensive mathematics using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / nik muhammad farhan hakim nik badrul alam, nazihah ismail and anisah dasman
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Pahang
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