Special note on the last week of classes: We will not have a recitation during the week of 12/9-12/13. However, I will have office hours that week, and I will be available for makeup quiz appointments. So if you have questions about the material you're studying for the final, feel free to stop by during those office hour times; and if you would like to make up missed quizzes, please email me and let me know what time(s) during that week would be good for you.
Friday, November 22:
Wednesday, November 27 (note different day!):
Friday, December 6:
The final exam is Monday, December 16, from 4 to 7 PM. Information on the final exam will be available at the course page at some point.
Do I need to hand in the "UT" (Using Technology) homework exercises?
No, you do not need to hand in these exercises. However, you are encouraged to do them, as they are good practice for using your graphing calculator to do calculus problems.
If I miss a recitation section, can I make up the quiz?
If you want to be able to make up a quiz for a missed recitation section, you must notify me by e-mail in advance that you're going to be absent. If you do this, I will note it down and allow you to make up that section's quiz at the end of the semester; I will announce in class times when students will be able to schedule makeup quizzes, to be taken in my office.
What if I turn in homework late?
Homework turned in after the recitation section at which it is due will not receive full credit. However, if you turn in late homework the next class day (i.e. the Monday after a Friday recitation section), I will grade it and give you partial credit. Homework turned in later than that will not receive credit except in special circumstances; if you know some such special circumstance is going to exist, contact me in advance. Late homework should be put in my departmental mailbox, which is in the mailroom on the third floor of the Hill Center.What if the lecturer does not cover all the sections the syllabus says are supposed to be covered?
I will keep in touch with the lecturer and keep track of what sections are actually covered in lecture. You will not have to hand in homework on sections not covered, nor will I discuss them in recitation; quizzes, likewise, will be based only on material actually covered in lectures the previous week. However, if you aren't sure whether the lecturer really fully covered material from a section, you should always do the homework problems from that section just in case, unless the lecturer specifically says otherwise.Can I email you with questions on homework, or other math-related questions?
Yes, you can, and I encourage you to do so.I will give a short quiz (1-2 problems, 10-15 minutes) at the end of every recitation. Additionally, at each week's recitation you will be expected to hand in solutions to homework problems. The homework problems will be those from the text sections discussed in lecture during that week; the quiz will be based on the previous week's material. For example, on Friday, Sep. 13 you will hand in problems from sections 2.1-2.4, and the quiz problems will cover the material from sections 1.3-1.4. The list of problems to hand in for each section is here.
The recitation section will then be devoted to discussion of some of the problems you've handed in. I will select two problems at random to grade, and will hand back your homework writeups with these problems graded at the following week's recitation. While I do not have time to look at all solutions on everyone's homework, if there are additional problems you'd like me to give you feedback on, come to my office during office hours or make an appointment, and I'll be happy to go through them with you.
Each quiz, and each week's two randomly selected homework problems, will be graded on a 10-point scale. In all, your quiz grades will count for 100 points toward your course grade, and your homework grades will count for another 100 points. Since there are more than 10 weeks in the semester, I will take your best 10 quiz grades for the semester and add them up to get your quiz score, and likewise for the homework grades.
The syllabus and homework assignments are available from the course page. Note that Sections 17 and 18 of the course do not use WebWORK.
Here are some good study tips, courtesy of Eva Curry.