Calculus I                                                       Fall 2002

Read this first:
 Prof. Lewin's Survival Guide  for Students Taking University Courses in Mathematics

Content: Students must review the material in Chapter 1 during the first week of the class.
  Chapter 2: Limits and derivatives
  Chapter 3: Differentiation rules
  Chapter 4: Applications of the differentiation
  Chapter 5: Integrals

J    Homework: Assigned daily. Some problems will be collected and graded. All computer projects are in the directory Elmore/users/Niederhausen/CalculusI

K    Quizzes: Every Friday, last 10 minutes, except during the three test weeks.
L     Tests: Friday 9/20, 10/18, 11/15
M    Final: Comprehensive, on Sunday, December ?, 6:45 - 9:15 PM, in room PA 101
ý Grades: Final and 3 tests = 70%, 10 best quizzes: 15%, home/computer work: 15% 

Statistics from my Calculus 1 class Fall 2001:

# students enrolled during the first week: 35
# students with 3 or less points out of 10 on Quiz 1: 40%
# students taking Test 1: 23, scoring below 50 out of 100: 39%
# students taking Test 2: 21, scoring below 50 out of 100: 57%
# students taking Test 3: 19, scoring below 50 out of 100: 47%
# students taking Final: 19, scoring below 50 out of 100: 26%; scoring 90 or above: 37%

Grade distribution for Fall 2001: A B C D F W
% of students who took Quiz 1 10% 7% 17% 23% 20% 23%
% of students who took Final 16% 11% 26% 37% 10%  

Basic rules for computer lab  

Calculus tutorials in SE 299L:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: ? AM - ? PM.     Wednesday ? AM - ? PM, and ? PM - ? PM.       Friday ? AM - 3? PM
Know your graphs!
 
Week
 HW for Monday
 HW for Wednesday
 HW for Thursday
 HW for Friday
8/19-23
 (Chpt. 2)
First day of class
 2.1 #4, 6;   QUIZ 1 on Chpt. 1
8/26-8/30
 2.2 #6,18,24
 2.2 #12,14,16
 2.3 #8,10,30
 2.4 #10,26,40; QUIZ 2 on 2.1 - 2.3
9/2-9/6
 Labor Day
 2.4 #22,24,42
 2.4 #4,12,14
 2.3 #2,14,32; QUIZ 3  on 2.3 - 2.4
9/9-9/13
 2.5 # 16,38,40
 2.5 # 26,42,46
 2.6 #4, 10, 40
 2.8 #2,22,30; QUIZ 4 on 2.5 - 2.6
9/16-9/20
 2.9 #4,8,36
 3.1 #10, 26, 44
 3.1 #40, 50, 56
 TEST 1 on Chpt. 2
9/23-9/27
3.2 #2, 12, 26
 3.3 #4, 12, 28
 3.2 #40, 3.4 #16, 26; QUIZ 6 on 3.1 and 3.2
9/301-10/4
 3.4 #24, 32,40
 3.5 #4,10,32
 3.5#40,48,56 meet in Lab
 QUIZ 7 on 3.4 and 3.5
10/7-10/11
 3.6 #4, 24, 26
 3.7 #12, 26, 50
 3.7 #52, 54, 58 meet in Lab QUIZ 8 on 3.6 and 3.7
10/14-10/18
 3.8 #6,24,38;
 3.9 # 16,24,46
 3.6 #64, 3.8#46, 3.9#40
 TEST 2A , TEST 2B on Chpt.3.1 - 3.9
10/21-10/25
3.10# 6,10,14
 3.10 #20,30,32 meet in Lab QUIZ 10 on 3.10#19
10/28-11/1
 4.1 #4,12,14
4.1 # 26,62,70
 4.2 #2,14,18 meet in Lab
 4.2#34, 4.3 #2,8; QUIZ 11 on 4.1#12,70
11/4-11/8
 4.3
 4.3 #10, 30, 50
 4.4 #36, 50, 72 meet in Lab
 QUIZ 12 on 4.3 and 4.4, Make-Up Quiz
11/11-11/15
 Veteran's Day
 HW 4.9 #4,30,38
 5.1 #2, 12, 18
 4.1#64, 4.3#26, 4.4#66 TEST 3 on Chpt. 4.1,3,4
11/18-11/22
5.2 30,36,44 Quiz 14
5.3 #2,8,12,20,30,40; meet in Lab
 QUIZ 15
11/25-11/29
 5.3 #14,38,64
 5.4 #2,14,46
 Thanksgiving
  Thanksgiving
12/2-12/6
 5.5 #6,26,46
 5.5 #58, 70, 78
 All sections that were required for Test 1 - 3, and 5.1 - 5.5 will be on the final exam!
 

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