Math 1296 Calculus I
Syllabus
-Fall
2009
Instructor: Angela Sharp
Office: 102 SCC, 726-8255 Office Hours: MTh 9-10, MW 12-1, M 2-3 and also by appointment
Email: acates@d.umn.edu Webpage: www.d.umn.edu/~acates
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Graduate Teaching
Assistants: |
Krystyna Korinkova korin004@d.umn.edu SCC118b 726-7995 Office Hours: MW10-11 T 12-1 |
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Nan Zhang
zhang906@d.umn.edu SCC115 726-6239 Office Hours: M 3-4 TTh 9-10 |
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Meeting times: |
(class) MWF, 1-1:50 pm, SCC
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Section 9 Section
10 Section
11 Section
12 Section
13 Section
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Text: Calculus, Early
Transcendentals, Stewart. Cengage Learning. 2008.
We will cover chapter one through section 7.1 with some sections omitted. This is a customized version of the book, because it will be cheaper for the student. You should go to the UMD bookstore to purchase it. In my class, we will NOT be using the WebAssign, just the textbook. However, you can use it in the future, and it IS cheaper to buy it this way. You can also buy this text online. The ISBN of a suitable version is 978-0495011668 or 978-0495763635. This text is also available as an ebook on Amazon with ISBN 978-0495564164.
Prerequisites: SP-3 ½ years high school algebra or
trigonometry or geometry or college pre-calculus course; credit will not be
granted if credit received for 1290; QP-1250, 1296
Course Description
This course covers the
first part of a standard introduction to calculus of functions of a single
variable. It includes limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, and their
applications. The material is mostly covered in Chapters 1-6 and Section 7.1 of
the text. Some supplemental material, not included in the text, may
occasionally be presented in lecture.
It satisfies the UMD Liberal Education requirement for Category Two:
Math, Logic, and Critical Thinking. By the end of the term, the successful
student will understand the important role that calculus plays in modeling
real-world phenomena and how to apply calculus to problems in his/her
discipline. Business, economics, biology, geology, chemistry, physics,
engineering and numerous other disciplines make heavy use of calculus. Whenever
numerical quantities change with respect to time or with respect to other
variables, calculus is probably involved. The incredible success of the
physical sciences and engineering in today's world is largely due to "the
unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics," and calculus plays a major
role in that effectiveness! The biological social and managerial scientists
today also make tremendous use of calculus to solve their problems.
Grading (Dates are tentative):
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Exam 1: |
Friday, October 9th |
Chap 1-2.4 |
100pts |
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Exam 2: |
Friday, November 13th |
Chap 2.1-4.1 |
100pts |
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Exam 3: |
Friday, December 11th |
Chap 4.2-5.4 |
100pts |
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Final Exam: |
Thurs,
Dec 17 4-5:55 BohH 90 |
Cumulative |
200pts |
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Homework(~40 @ 5pts each) |
Tuesdays |
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200pts |
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Quizzes(9 @ 10pts each) |
Thursdays |
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90pts |
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Participation |
Daily |
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70pts |
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Total: |
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860pts |
Grade
Scale:
A =
94-100% A- = 90-93% C+ 77-79% C = 74-76%
C- = 70-73% F = 59
or below
B+ 87-89%
B = 84-86% B- = 80- 83% D+ = 67-69% D = 60-66%
Class Policy
Lectures, discussions,
material in the text and homework are all intended to complement each
other. No one is a replacement for any
of the others. You are responsible for
all material covered via any of these sources.
Each Thursday (except the week of an exam) in discussion there will be a
10 point quiz covering current material.
The lowest quiz score will be dropped at the end of the semester. Homework will
be assigned daily in class and will be due at the end of class each Tuesday.
There will be more problems assigned than graded and you will be responsible
for going online and viewing the homework key to insure that all your work is correct. Late work will not be accepted. All work
should be shown for homework, quizzes and tests. Adhere to the “Homework Guidelines”
for the completion of homework. You are
strongly encouraged to form study groups and collaboration is acceptable on
homework assignments, but not exams or quizzes unless you are explicitly told
otherwise. Student solution manuals
containing solutions to the odd problems are available in the bookstore. However, you may not use the full solution
manual with both even and odd solutions while preparing your homework. Any cases of cheating will be dealt with severely. To
view the UMD statement on Student Academic Integrity
Policy, see: http://www.d.umn.edu/conduct/.
If you feel that a grading error has been
made on your exams, please bring it to the attention of the instructor. You
will have one week following the return of each exam in which to contest such
errors. Keep all homework, quizzes and exams in
your records. The final exam date is
absolutely nonnegotiable. Cell phones
are not needed for class activities and should remain off and away during
class.
Participation
Your
participation in this class is expected during both lectures and
discussions. Your teaching assistant
will be evaluating your discussion participation and in lecture I will
routinely start or finish a class with a two point question(s) that will be
graded as follows. One point will be
granted for an incorrect answer and the full two points for a correct
answer. The questions will all be
answered with the personal response card (clicker) you purchased. However, before the system will work you will
need to register your response card at http://www2.webvista.umn.edu.
For more information about the technology and the process that was used to
choose this system you can visit http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/classroom/srs/index.html. At the end of the semester the two lowest
scores will be dropped.
Calculators
Use
of graphing calculators is encouraged but not required. They will be allowed on
exams and quizzes, but exams and quizzes will be written to minimize the
benefit of having a calculator. You must
show your work (thought process) for all problems, thus answers arrived at by
calculator alone will be granted very few points. Any calculator that is capable of symbolic
manipulation will not be allowed on exams.
This includes TI-89. See the
instructor if you are unsure if you calculator is acceptable.
Missed Exams or Quizzes
Missed
quizzes or exams will be assigned a zero score unless you provide a valid
written, signed (by a doctor, for example) excuse for your absence; unless it
is not possible to do so, you must provide verbal notice ahead of time to your
instructor for the absence. Arrangements for a makeup should be made as soon as
you know you will miss. Do not wait for the next class. You can leave the
instructor a message 24 hours a day by phone or by email. Oversleeping, poor
preparation, slight colds, and cold weather are not valid excuses. Remember
that one quiz score will be dropped, so you have a bit of a cushion.
Student Conduct Code
The instructor will enforce
and students are expected to follow the University's Student Conduct Code (http://www.d.umn.edu/assl/conduct/code).
Appropriate classroom conduct promotes an environment of academic achievement
and integrity. Disruptive classroom behavior that substantially or repeatedly
interrupts either the instructor's ability to teach, or student learning, is
prohibited. Disruptive behavior includes inappropriate use of technology in the
classroom. Examples include ringing cell phones, text-messaging, watching
videos, playing computer games, reading/writing email, or surfing the Internet
on your computer instead of note-taking or other learning activities.
Disabilities
Please inform me of any disabilities of which I should
be aware in order to provide for equitable participation.
Tutoring
In addition to the office
hours of the instructor and the teaching assistants, help is usually available
M-F at the