| Lectures: 11:00 a.m. MWF | Recitations: | 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m. Thursdays | |
| Room: ARM 0126 | Rooms: | MTH 0106 and 0305 | |
| Instructor: David C. Lay | Assistants: | Yabing Mai (Sections 0111,...,0141) | |
| Office: MTH 2307 | Fernando Galoz-Garcia (Sections 0112,...,0142) | ||
| Hours: Mon 3 - 6 p.m.; Wed 4 - 6 p.m. |
This course is the first semester of an introduction to calculus for students in the biological, social and management sciences, and architecture. Applications of calculus to these disciplines form an important part of the course. Concrete calculations are emphasized and provide an opportunity to practice algebraic skills introduced in earlier courses.
The class will use WebCT for providing supplementary course materials and for reporting grades on exams. If you are registered for this class, you have access to the class WebCT site:
www.courses.umd.edu. For help, click “Getting Started”.
| Texts | Order of Topics | Exams | Homework Assignments | ||
| Quizzes | Homework | Grading | Schedule of Lectures | ||
MATH 220 is a CORE "Distributive Studies" course and satisfies part of the CORE requirements for graduation. These requirements are designed to ensure that you will take a look at several different academic disciplines and the way they create and analyze knowledge about the world. A faculty and student committee approved MATH 220 as a CORE course because it introduces you to ideas and issues that are central to a major intellectual discipline and because it promises to involve you actively in the learning process. Please take advantage of the opportunities this course offers you.
| Texts: | Calculus and Its Applications, 11th ed., by Goldstein, Lay, and Schneider, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2007. |
| Study Guide with Selected Solutions, by Lay and Schneider, Prentice-Hall, 2007. | |
| NOTE: An inexpensive scientific calculator (with an ex key) is required for exams. Graphing calculators (such as the TI-83) and calculators with symbolic computations (such as the TI-89) will NOT be permitted during exams. |
| Chapter | Topic | Sections | # Lectures |
| 1 | The Derivative | 1.1 - 1.3, 1.6 - 1.8 | 6 |
| 2 | Applications of the Derivative | 2.1 - 2.6 | 6 |
| 3 | Techniques of Differentiation | 3.1, 3.2 | 2 |
| 4 | The Exponential and Logarithm Functions | 4.1 - 4.6 | 5 |
| 5 | Applications of ex and ln x. | 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 | 3 |
| 6 | Integration | 6.1 - 6.5 | 7 |
| 7 | Functions of Several Variables | 7.1 - 7.5 | 7 |
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| Exams: | Sept. 15 (Fri, 20 min), Oct. 2 (Mon), Oct. 31 (Mon), and Nov. 22 (Wed, before Thanksgiving) |
| Final Exam: May 14 (Thursday), 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Final exam rooms TBA. |
Students will sit in assigned sections of the room for the midterm exams. Each student must bring his or her university picture I.D. to the exams. Makeup exams will not be given unless a student can present evidence that an absence was caused by serious illness, a death in the immediate family, religious observance, or participation in University activities at the request of University authorities. For an illness, you must present a signed statement from a doctor that your illness was sufficiently serious to make you miss an exam. (A note saying only that you visited the doctor or the Health Center will not suffice.) Please contact me before an anticipated exam absence, if at all possible. If you have a documented disability and wish to discuss academic accommodations with me, please contact me as soon as possible. Please check your final exam schedule. If you have a problem with the schedule, the university requires you to contact your instructors on or before Sept. 13. (See me as soon as possible, to discuss the situation.)
Quizzes: Student participation in the recitation classes on Thursdays is an important part of the course. A short quiz will be given at the beginning of most recitation classes. Often the quiz will cover material introduced in the latest lecture. In such a case, quiz questions will usually be essentially the same as homework problems. No makeup quizzes will be given. A missing quiz grade will be dropped only when you have a legitimate reason for missing a quiz. (Here "legitimate" is interpreted more liberally than for exams. Send an explanation in a brief email to me as soon as possible after a missed quiz. See the instructions about email.) At the end of the semester, the total of the quiz scores will be converted to a 100-point basis.
Homework:
Success in the course is highly correlated with regular attendance and punctual completion of homework. Homework will be assigned at each lecture. If you miss a lecture, work the problems on the homework sheet that correspond to the section(s) covered in lecture. (See the schedule of lectures.) It is your responsibility to complete the homework before the next class meeting (recitation or lecture), writing neatly with proper notation (and good English when appropriate). You should attempt every problem assigned--this may take two or more hours. Homework will not be collected, but will be tested regularly on quizzes. Please bring your homework papers to each office visit with your instructor or teaching assistant. We can give you better help and advice for studying when we see your work and the types of exercises that you find difficult.
Please print a copy of this syllabus, read it carefully, sign your name below, and turn in this signed page at the lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Grading: The final grade will be based on 600 points: midterm exams (40, 100, 100, 100), quizzes (100), and final exam (160). The tentative cutoff scores are: 540 (A), 480 (B), 420 (C), and 360 (D).
E-Mail:
You may write to me at lay@math.umd.edu . I am pleased to hear from students, and I usually read and answer my email on MWF afternoons or evenings. But I must make some rules, to avoid being overwhelmed with emails. (I delete 25+ junk messages each day.) Each email message must contain your course name (MATH 220) and section number in the message header. I will not respond if that information is missing, because I file my MATH 220 email by section number. If you cannot attend office hours, speak to me after class or send a list of the times when you can come, and I'll try to find a time that works.
Sometimes I send a message to the entire class from my home computer. Please do not write to me at that address (except for a dire emergency), because I use that only for personal matters.
"I have read the syllabus carefully and I understand my responsibilities in this course."
Signed:
______________________________________________ (Date) ____________
Printed Name: ___________________________________ Section Number: ________
Last Revised: Aug. 27, 2006