Math 124 –
Calculus I With Applications
Section 5, Spring 2008
Syllabus (This is tentative, and arranged weekly, not daily.)
Homework
Assignments – hand-written
Computer-based assignments are listed in WebAssign.
Make sure you keep up with both
sets of homework. Due
dates will be listed under Announcements below and
announced in class.
Students should work through all hand-written homework
problems, regardless of whether they are collected for points.
Class
Listserv address: math124sec5@listserv.Arizona.EDU
Announcements:
WA
7.1 – Due Monday, 5/5 by 11:59 pm.
Final Exam – Monday, 5/12 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm (arrive 15 minutes early)
Location: Harvill 150 (Click here for
map)
The
course coordinator has provided
Final Exam
study guide and Answers
I recommend that you try the problems here without looking at the answers, text,
your notes, or any other help; then
check your work using the answers. This
will
tell you which topics you need to study more. Once you know that, then work on
those topics (use your text, notes, instructor, tutors, old tests,
old homework, etc.)
You
can also access the Final Exam
Main
Calculus site: http://math.arizona.edu/~calc/
Tutoring:
Math East 145 is open 10 am – 3 pm through Wednesday, 5/7. I believe they are
closed on reading day.
MASTR
tutoring (ILC 119) is open 5:30 – 9:30 pm through Wednesday, 5/7.
On
reading day, hours are 4 – 8 pm, but you must sign up in advance.
Office
hours:
I’ll
have my usual office hours through Wednesday, 5/7. Additional office hours:
Thursday,
5/8 from 9 – 11 am.
Friday,
5/9 from 10 – 11 am.
“WA” assignments are on http://www.webassign.net/
Having ‘issues’ with WebAssign?
Here are
some tips
Calculator programs: http://math.arizona.edu/~krawczyk/calcul.html
Handouts, etc.:
Pretty
pictures of trig functions: Sine
Section
3.3 – Practice with Product & Quotient rules (Yellow handout)
Section 3.4 –
Practice with Product, Quotient & Chain rules without equations!
(Green handout)
Section 3.5 –
Practice with Chain Rule, Trig functions, etc. (Tan handout)
Chapter 3 –
Practice with most rules from chapter 3.
(Pink handout)
Critical Points
and Reading Graphs
(Yellow handout for sections 4.1 & 4.3)
Section
4.5 – Optimization
handout from class
For more optimization (4.5) discussion
and examples, see
http://www.qcalculus.com/cal08.htm
For more related rate (4.6) discussion and examples, see
http://www.qcalculus.com/cal07.htm
Section 4.7 – L’Hopital’s Rule handout
Section 5.1 – Introduction handout
Representations using the
Fundamental Theorem
Section 6.1 – Using the Fundamental Theorem to graph F(x)
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, including MASTR
evening tutoring.
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.
Are you ready for Calculus? Click here
to download some software that
can
help you find out. (Directions: choose “Save to disk” and save on
your
desktop or some other place that’s easy to find. Next, go to this location
and
double-click on the file “0calc1”, then open the folder “Calc1” that appears,
and double-click on the file called “RUNME”. Once the application starts, choose
1 for Calculus 1, then follow the on-screen directions.)
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
Preliminary test:
About the Preliminary
test –
Review materials are
available at http://prep.math.lsa.umich.edu/pmc/
(see
sections 1 – 7 of this online review)
Date: Thursday, January 24.
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.
This
page last updated Monday, June 30, 2008