LINKS TO EXAM RESULTS AND OTHER NEWS FLASHES WILL APPEAR HERE.¹

Course and Final Exam Grades may be obtained here.

If you will take a makeup examination in the summer or next fall, click here for makeup exam information.

Links to Hour Exam Results, including individual number/letter grades, general statistics, and suggested solutions for the problems, are in the Examination Announcements... section of this page.

HOMEWORK DUE DATES: Beginning Monday 2/18, homework assignments pertaining to the previous Wednesday's lecture will be due each Monday in recitations. Click on TEXTBOOK HOMEWORK here or below for assignments. Unannounced quizzes may also be given in recitations. Recitations that immediately precede hour exams will be devoted to review.

Look for additional Maple material (like a guide to making Lab 1 work properly) at the MAPLE STUFF location below. See the syllabus for due dates on Maple Labs 2, 3 and 4.

By popular request: suggested solutions for a Fall 2000 final exam.

Warning: This information does not necessarily apply to any other section. Consult your own teachers. 

The general Math 251 Course Webpage contains some general course information, links to other sections of this course, and links to relevant web sites (for example, to a Maple orientation for Math 251).

• Textbook:
• Required: James Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th ed., Brooks-Cole (1999), ISBN# 0-534-36298-2.
• Rutgers University Academic Integrity Policy
• Lecturer: Bertram Walsh. (Click on the name for home page giving office hours.) Click for email here.
• Recitation Instructors:Derek Hansen for sections 13 and 14 and Mohamud Mohammed for section 15. Click on their names for their home pages, on which should be displayed their office hours.

• Course Materials: (with the exception of the syllabus and problem lists, most linked names will be .pdf files, usually read on an Acrobat reader)
• Syllabus

• Examination Announcements and Materials:
• First Hour Exam: 2/27/2002. Links to results: Individual number/letter grades, general statistics, suggested solutions.
• Second Hour Exam: 4/17/2002. Links to results: Individual number/letter grades, general statistics, suggested solutions.
• Final Examination: 5/13/2002. Individual number/letter grades (including the letter grade for the course).

Any .pdf files listed above will be set in small type whose legibility on some terminals may be marginal. You're almost surely using an Acrobat reader to read these files: clicking on a magnification icon and selecting "fit visible" may improve things. You may find that the best solution for the legibility problem is to produce hard copies (or to obtain them from the instructor if you are unable to produce them yourself).

• USEFUL GENERAL INFORMATION can be found in such places as
• A new edition mapleins.pdf of the Rutgers Maple instructions, in Acrobat .pdf format.
• An old edition mapleinst.html of the Rutgers Maple instructions, in .html format. You might prefer this format, but be alert for changes that resulted when the older version of Maple was replaced by Maple VII.
• A very fancy set of Maple instructions from the University of Kentucky mathematics department.
• MAPLE ASSIGNMENTS
• To be announced. The first recitation, Monday January 28th--which will not be held in the usual location--will be an introduction to Maple. It might help you to bring a copy of one of the Maple instruction handouts listed directly above.
• Maple Lab -1 ("minus-one"), very much like the standard Lab 0 but with answers to the most frequently asked questions and some change of organization.
• A seed file for Maple Lab -1. Note: This file will download as gibberish unless you hold down the SHIFT key while you click on the link. But if you do that, then it will download as a .mws = Maple Worksheet file, ready for your use. If you did it wrong the first time, just try again, overwriting the file of garbage.
• The Maple Lab 1 text.
• The Maple Lab 1 seed file. Remember to hold the SHIFT key down when downloading this .mws file.
• A page of suggestions for Maple Lab 1 implementation.
• The Maple Lab 2 text.
• The Maple Lab 2 seed file. Remember to hold the SHIFT key down when downloading this .mws file.
• The Maple Lab 3 text.
• The Maple Lab 3 seed file. Remember to hold the SHIFT key down when downloading this .mws file.
• The Maple Lab 4 text.
• The Maple Lab 4 seed file. Remember to hold the SHIFT key down when downloading this .mws file.
• See the syllabus for due dates on Maple Labs 2, 3 and 4. We'll have to work around the difficulties with Maple Lab 1, but so far no trouble has been reported with the others.

Attendance is required at all lectures and recitations. The information in this Web page is unofficial (except for Announcements, above). Official assignments and other information about the course, such as the dates of exams, will be given in class. There will be two midterm exams (see syllabus for approximate dates--if this date is firm appears, then the date is binding) and a final exam. Quizzes will be given in lecture or recitation. Your course grade will be computed with the following weights:
 

Late assignments will not be accepted. Make-up exams will be given only at the discretion of the instructor.

Everyone has questions that don't get answered in the classroom. (If you don't ever have any, then it's a good rule of thumb that you're not thinking hard enough about your course.) When this happens, there are several places to turn for help. First of all, your lecturer and recitation instructor have office hours, and you're not getting your money's worth at Rutgers if you need help but haven't visited office hours. Discussing questions with fellow students can be extremely valuable. Remember, of course, that plagiarism is absolutely forbidden; after these discussions, when you write up assignments and put your name on them, you are certifying that you wrote them up in your own words and by yourself. (Do be careful to do your Maple lab reports exactly according to the instructions.) Beyond these resources, you can visit one of the Math and Science Learning Centers on campus (Busch: Allison Road, 732-445-3123/3898; Douglass: Chemistry Building 3rd Floor, 932-8991), where walk-in tutoring is available at specified hours, or one of the Learning Resource Centers. At these centers your tutor will not necessarily be someone from the mathematics department. Or you can hire a paid tutor; the mathematics department (732-445-2390) maintains a list of tutors.

If you need help, seek it out promptly and participate actively. If you find that

• you're struggling but still telling yourself that you can learn the course without talking to others who know the subject, or
• you're afraid to "look stupid" or "show your ignorance" by asking questions, or
• you're sure you can catch up in the last couple of weeks of the semester,