MATH 170 - Calculus - Section 004

Fall 08

MTWF 10:40-11:30am, MG 139

It is departmentally established that the ALEKS Assessment is required for all MATH 170 sections, deadline Friday, August 29, 2008. Here is the link for ALEKS.

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 10:30am-12:30pm, MG139. Results

Instructor: Barbara Zubik-Kowal

Office: MG 241B, Phone: 426-2802

Office Hours: MWF 12:40-1:30pm

Textbooks: "University Calculus" by Joel Hass, Maurice Weir and George Thomas, Addison-Wesley (2007)

Syllabus

(topics from Chapters 1-5 of Hass-Weir-Thomson's textbook)

Limits and continuity
Derivative rules for polynomials and transcendental functions
Implicit differentiation, related rates, and approximations
Applications of the derivative
Introduction to Riemann sums, integration and antidifferentiation

Learning Objectives

Our first semester calculus course has the usual objectives of a calculus course which is used by other disciplines on campus. As a service course taken primarily by non-majors, MATH170 stresses neither the aesthetic side of mathematics nor the idea that of mathematics as the study of patterns.
Through the course of the semester, successful students will be expected

      To develop an understanding of the derivative and how it can be used in solving problems.

      To understand the relationship between the derivative and the graph of a function.

      To be sufficiently practiced in basic algebra to set up and solve equations and inequalities involving functions and their derivatives.

      To recognize that the integral is an operator which can be approximated through Riemann sums and is (in a sense) an anti-derivative of the integrand.

      To have mastered the basic formulae for differentiation and integration.

Core Learning Outcomes After this course, students should be able to:

      Correctly use mathematical language and notation to formulate and logically explain solutions of given problems.

      Fluently use mathematical language to formulate their ideas and to compose solutions to given problems. Be complete and concise.

      Understand and be familiar with a variety of approaches used, for example, in computing derivatives and sketching curves by analysis. Know and understand how to apply a variety of differentiation techniques applied to the first and second derivative tests to the same problem and be able to distinguish the pros and cons of using them with a variety of complex functions.

      Carefully analyze and segregate information in word problems and apply appropriate theorems to arrive at their solutions.

Tests, Quizzes (never dated), Homework, Final Exam

Test 1 : 09/22/2008 Chapters: 1 and part of 2

Test 2 : 11/03/2008 Chapters: 2, 3, and 4

Link to homework assignments Full solutions collected each Monday

Final Exam : 12/2008 Chapters: 1-5

Grading Policy

Two tests & quizzes 56 %

Homework 14 %

Final Exam 30 %

Total 100 %

A+: 97% and above; A: 93%-97%; A-: 90%-93%; B+: 87%-90%; B: 83%-87%; B-: 80%-83%; C+: 77%-80%; C: 73%-77%; C-: 70%-73%; D+: 67%-70%; D: 63%-67%; D-: 60%-63%; F: below 60%.

Tests, Quizzes (never dated), Homework, Final Exam
Test 1 : 09/22/2008	Chapters: 1 and part of 2
Test 2 : 11/03/2008	Chapters: 2, 3, and 4
Link to homework assignments	Full solutions collected each Monday
Final Exam : 12/2008	Chapters: 1-5

Grading Policy
Two tests & quizzes	56 %
Homework	14 %
Final Exam	30 %
Total	100 %
A+: 97% and above; A: 93%-97%; A-: 90%-93%; B+: 87%-90%; B: 83%-87%; B-: 80%-83%; C+: 77%-80%; C: 73%-77%; C-: 70%-73%; D+: 67%-70%; D: 63%-67%; D-: 60%-63%; F: below 60%.