Andrey Pestov
pestov at math.washington.edu
sections AA, AB
Libby MacKinnon
lmackinn at u.washington.edu
sections AC, AD
Vishal Vasan
vvasan at u.washington.edu
sections BA, BB
Gautam Sisodia
gautas at math.washington.edu
sections BC, BD
Midterm 1: January 31
Midterm 2: February 28
Final Exam: Saturday, March 15
1:30-4:20 PM
Kane 130
Rules for the final exam (notesheet, etc.)
Here is the updated grade record, with final exam scores (out of 70) and course grades. These are the actual course grades that have been reported to the registrar. They include the course curve, and the dropping of your lowest homework scores (note that your lowest score appears for the sake of record, but is dropped during the calculation of your grade).
Scores are listed by the last four digits of your student id number. For example, if your id number was 123456, your scores would be listed under 3456.
If you would like to see your final exam, or discuss your grade, you are welcome to stop by during my office hours next quarter, or make an appointment via email.
Have a good break!
Here are the stats for the final exam: n=282, min=6, 1st quartile=40, median=50, 3rd quartile=59, max=70
Grades will be posted here today or tomorrow.
To help you prepare for the final exam, here is a course review and some practice problems. The test archive has tons of old final exams that I also recommend you use. Keep in mind that we skipped chapter 9, and some problems on those old finals involve chapter 9 material.
Time and location and other information about the 120 final is now listed in the left-hand column.
The grade record is now available.
Your grade information is listed under the last four digits of your student id number. Be sure to check that your scores have been recorded correctly. If you find an error, please bring it to the attention of your TA right away. Included is also an estimated course grade. This includes the course curve, and the dropping of your lowest homework score. Obviously it does not include the final exam: that can have a very large impact on your actual course grade.
If you did not take one of the two exams, and have made arrangements with me to compensate for this, the grade estimate is not accurate. Too much depends on how you do on the final exam to give a useful estimate.
Here are answers to the second midterm.
Here are the stats for the second midterm.
n=283; 1st quartile=21; median=26; 3rd quartile=30.5; max=40 (2 people).
In the next day or so I'll post a grade record that will include a current estimated course grade based on your performance in the course so far.
Here is a review sheet for the second midterm exam.
Here is an applet to experiment with sinusoidal functions. Please take a look at it.
Here are the answers to the first midterm exam.
Here are some preliminary statistics on the first midterm.
n=186; 1st quartile=24; median=29; 3rd quartile=34.75; maximum=40 (7 people).
Here is a very rough grade approximation. This is only to give you an idea of how to interpret your score: the real course curve won't be determined until the end of the course.
| score | grade |
| 39-40 | 4.0 |
| 34-35 | 3.5 |
| 30 | 3.0 |
| 26-27 | 2.5 |
| 23 | 2.0 |
| 16-17 | 1.0 |
| ≤14 | 0.0 |
Answers to the first midterm exam will be posted soon!
I've updated the homework schedule. I decided that we could safely skip chapter 9.
Here is a review sheet for the upcoming midterm exam.
The answer to 7.11 is incorrect. Please see the correct answer here.
To prepare for the first midterm exam, you should know that the Materials Website (link at right) has a Test Archive containing lots and lots of old exams, a great many written by me. I do recommend, as one component of your studying, working through a few of those exams. In particular, I recommend you work a couple of those exams as exams: give yourself 50 minutes with no outside help (including solutions/answers!) to work the exam. This will help you get the feel for exam taking in this course, and should help you to determine where you need to concentrate more studying efforts.
I'll be posting a review sheet later this week and will be making comments relating to studying for the exam in lecture.
Welcome to Math 120 A and B, Winter quarter 2008.
Announcements and other useful things will be posted here during the quarter, so check this site frequently.