Math 105a Calculus I - Winter 2004
MWF 8:00-9:20am Hathorn 100
Email: gcoulomb@bates.edu
Office: 2 Canham House (146 Wood Street)
Phone: 786-8374
Office Hours: TR 9:00-10:30 and by appointment
Textbook: Calculus (Single Variable), 3 ed., Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, et al. We will cover most of chapters 2 through 6: topics include concepts of derivatives, calculating derivatives, applications of derivatives, the definite integral, and constructing antiderivatives.
Required Calculator: TI-83 Graphing Calculator, or equivalent.
Homework: Homework will be assigned daily and discussed in subsequent classes. You are encouraged to work on the homework with other students. Be sure to write up your own solutions. The homework problems will not be collected.
Labs: Five times during the semester you will be asked to participate in a lab that will be held outside of the regularly scheduled class time. Each lab group will consist of approximately 15 students from all of the Math 105 classes. You will meet with the AI, Eric Towne, to work in small groups on a specially designed problem set. The labs are designed to help you learn. The labs are not designed to evaluate your knowledge. The work completed during the lab will not be graded; however, lab attendance will be part of your grade.
Lab Sessions: You will sign-up for a particular day of the week and time, but the sessions will be held during the weeks of 1/19, 2/9, 3/1, 3/15, and 3/29.
Quizzes: We will usually have a quiz every day. These are intended to be straight forward and a means of assessing your comprehension of recent class concepts. There are no make up quizzes. Your lowest two quiz scores will be dropped.
Exams: There will be two in-class exams and a two-hour cumulative final on the following dates:
Exam 1: Friday, February 13
Exam 2: Friday, March 19
Final Exam: Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 am
There will be no make-up exams. If there is any reason why you must miss an exam, you must contact me at least a week in advance to make alternate plans.
Eric Towne will conduct review sessions on the Wednesday preceding each midterm exam from 6:30-8:30 pm. Special review sessions will be offered during the week before the final. The location of all review sessions will be announced at a later date.
Method of Grading: Grades will be based upon 5% for lab attendance, 15% for quizzes, 25% for each of the midterms, and 30% for the final.
Help Sessions and Tutoring
The Mathematics and Statistics Workshop offers drop-in hours Monday through Thursday from 1- 4 pm at 146 Wood Street, Canham House 1 and nightly Calculus Help Sessions Sunday through Thursday from 7 - 9 pm at 146 Wood Street, Canham House 1. For additional information refer to the website http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/acad_support/msw.
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