MATH 202(01)
  SPRING 2004
   
Course Syllabus:

 

Venue: The class meets in 407 Clapp on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 to 10:50.

Text: James Stewart, Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals, fifth edition, 2003.

Course description: We will cover most of Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 11 in Stewart, along with some of Chapters 8 and 10, if we have time. The material includes techniques and applications of integration, numerical integration, and the use of series and power series representations of functions.

Homework: Several homework problems will be assigned in each lecture. Homework will be due on Wednsedays.

Quizzes: There will be a ten-minute quiz in each Wednesday class meeting, except during exam weeks. Problems on the quizzes will be very similar (if not identical) to recent homework problems. There will be no make-up quizzes.

Exams: There will be three hour exams during the semester, probably during the weeks of February 16, March 22, and April 19. They will be take-home, self-timed exams. There will be a comprehensive final exam during final examination period.

Grading: Your two lowest quiz grades will be dropped, and the remaining grades will be weighted as follows to determine your grade for the course:

Homework average15%
Quiz average20%
Hour Exam average40%
Final Exam grade25%

Your letter grade for the course will be determined from your numeric grade as follows.

If your numeric grade is above 959088828078727060
your letter grade will be at least AA-B+BB-C+CC-D

The cut-off points for assigning letter grades will depend on the distribution of final numeric grades. Your final letter grade may be higher than the grade indicated above, but it will not be lower.

Technology: You will need a graphing calculator for this course. I strongly recommend the TI-85, TI-83, or TI-89. If you have another calculator, you will need to have a copy of its instruction manual. In particular, you will need to know how to use your calculator to evaluate partial sums of series.

Resources: My office hours are listed here; you are welcome to make an appointment to talk with me at other times. The mathematics department sponsors walk-in tutoring on Sunday through Thursday evenings in 401 and 402 Clapp.

Issues of Academic Integrity: You are encouraged to collaborate with your classmates on homework assignments, as long as the information flow goes both ways. No collaboration will be allowed on quizzes or exams.