Math 124 –
Calculus I With Applications
Section 4, Fall 2006
Syllabus (This is tentative, and arranged weekly, not daily.)
Please also read the appropriate section before attempting the
homework
(even better—read it before we discuss it
in class!).
Class
Listserv address: math124004@listserv.arizona.edu
Announcements:
Final Exam – Monday, 12/11 from
so we can get organized and begin at
Final Exam
study guide (PDF) and answers
(PDF) – use these wisely! Do not look at
the answers
or use notes or help of any kind as you attempt the
questions in the study guide; this will help you
determine which topics you know reasonably well already and
which ones you need to study more.
Tutoring – the Math
Dept. tutoring room is open through Wednesday, Dec. 6 (hours:
– contact the Math and Science Tutoring Resource (520.626.9398 --- mastr@email.arizona.edu)
for their hours during exam week.
If
you struggle with math tests, the following article has some excellent
strategies for taking math tests and studying math in
general:
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/anxiety/index.asp
If you also struggle with tests in other classes, so that your
grades never
seem to reflect what you have learned,
Academic Counselors are available on
campus who are trained to help students with issues like
this.
See http://www.ulc.arizona.edu/academic_counseling.htm for more info rmation.
Handouts:
Logarithms (distributed 8/25)
Extra
trig practice – part
I and part
II
True/False
and Fill-in-the-blank:
practice with notation and wording
Product &
Quotient practice and solutions
Chain rule practice
(up through 3.5) and solutions
If
you had trouble with questions like these on test 2,
be sure to practice them
(they showed up on last semester’s final exam).
Finding
Critical Points, Inflection Points, etc from a graph
Questions
about f, f ˘, & f ˘˘
using the graph of f ˘ or f ˘˘
Preliminary
test:
Review materials are
available at http://prep.math.lsa.umich.edu/pmc/
(see
sections 1 – 7)
Date: Tuesday, August 29
The test should take ~30 minutes.
Covers
common Algebra mistakes. No Trig, no
Calculus.
No
calculators allowed.
Many
problems will be ‘all right’ or ‘all wrong’ or
have very little partial credit.
Possible question
formats:
show all work,
multiple choice,
determine if statement is Correct or Incorrect,
rewrite an incorrect statement so it is correct.
Topics:
Simplifying expressions,
solving equations,
common algebra mistakes.
NO
functions, graphing, word problems or trig on this test.
Tutoring:
Free tutoring is
available in Math East room
145.
Hours: Monday – Thursday 10
– 3; Friday 10 – 2.
Also
see the tutoring link at the top of my homepage
for more sources of tutoring on campus.
Links:
look here for Final Exam study guides and locations,
“Tools for Success in 124”, etc.
this page has both Pre-Calc review
as well as helps for reviewing the
Calculus topics
you are learning this semester
Math jokes and other
silliness
This
page last updated Wednesday, December 06, 2006