Syllabus for Math 112, Winter 2008
Instructor: Dr. Alexandra Nichifor (office: Padelford
C-326)
E-mail: nichifor@math.washington.edu (please include
“Math 112” in the subject line)
Class website: www.math.washington.edu/~nichifor/112W08.htm
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this page; it contains useful course information, and will be updated weekly.
Please read the links on this website
carefully first before emailing any questions.
Text: Calculus in Business and Economics by G.S. Monk,
(available from Professional
Copy ‘N Print,
Other Required Materials: • a clear plastic ruler
• a scientific calculator
• packet of lecture handouts (download
from the course website)
Course Objectives: To learn the methods of differential and integral calculus with
specific emphasis on applications to business and economics. Topics include:
rates of change, tangent lines, derivatives, linear programming, areas, and
integrals.
Grade Breakdown:
Your grade will be made up of: Final Exam
36%
Midterm I 21%
Midterm II 21%
Homework 10%
Activities 10%
Participation 2%
Activities (10%): You will participate in group activities during quiz section each Tuesday.
These activities are designed to reinforce or deepen your conceptual
understanding of topics in the course or to introduce new topics. You will work
on these activities in groups; however, each person will hand in his/her own
solutions. These activities are to be finished and turned in at the end of the
quiz section; however, if a group demonstrates a reasonable effort and is
unable to finish, the members of that group may turn in the activity at the following
quiz section (but no later).
Homework (10%):
Homework will be assigned weekly in lecture and will be collected during Friday’s lecture. Turn in complete solutions to all problems from each assigned worksheet,
according to the methods you learned. Since the answers to most of the
exercises are available to you, no
credit will be given for simply writing the correct answer. The first homework
is due this Friday.
(answers, graphs and tables can be found at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~m112/
)
Participation (2%): During Thursday’s quiz
sections, you will attempt problems from previous exams in a test-like setting,
and then discuss these problems as a class. You will receive points for attending
and actively participating in these
discussions.
After the discussion, your TA will answer your questions about that week’s
homework assignment.
Exams (78%):
You will be allowed to use your calculator, your ruler, and one 8.5×11 two-sided
sheet of personal notes for all exams. Other electronic devices are not be allowed (e.g. no cell phones, no laptops, no PDAs). You
may not share a calculator or a note sheet with another student on an exam.
Exam Dates:
Midterm I: Tuesday, February 5, in quiz
section
Midterm II: Thursday, February 28, in
quiz section
Final Exam: Saturday, March 15, 5-8pm,
room to be announced
Make-Ups:
Late activities and homework assignments are not
accepted for any reason.
You
will be allowed to miss one activity AND one homework assignment without
penalty to your grade to account for unexpected problems such as a car
breakdown, family issues, minor illness, etc. In case of a serious, unavoidable
and officially documented reason for
absence (such as illness, military duties, or university sponsored athletic
events) talk to the professor as soon as you can and provide official
documentation for your missed assignment(s).
Make-up exams will not be given.
If
you have to miss an exam due to unavoidable, serious, and well-documented
circumstances, contact the professor ASAP with the documentation to excuse your
absence (your final exam will be weighted more heavily.)
Important Resources:
• The Math 111/112 Math
Study Center (Communications’
basement, room B-006) is open Monday through Thursday, 12:30-4:30. It
provides a comfortable place and a supportive atmosphere for students to study,
in groups or individually. The MSC will open for the term during the second
week of classes. The center is staffed by TAs and instructors. Seethe link on
our class website for more details.
• The Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE)
holds drop-in tutoring sessions every Sunday through Thursday 7pm to midnight
in Mary Gates Hall Commons. See
http://depts.washington.edu/clue/
for more details.
·
Your professor’s and your TA’s office
hours
• The
• The
http://depts.washington.edu/counsels/services/workshops/workshops.html
Things to do before the next lecture:
·
the calendar for
the quarter
·
the homework
schedule for the quarter
and the homework
rules listed below (read these – read them carefully!)
·
a list of Tips and FAQs (read them carefully!)
·
the grading scale
for this course
·
the Math 112
materials website (including the Exam Archive, list of known textbook typos, the
Answers to the Text Exercises, and Graphs and Tables to use for answering the questions
in your homework which require you to use such graphs)
·
information about
the