SYLLABUS
MATH 151.05 Calculus I Fall 2016
Instructor: Ivan C. Sterling, 177 SH, cell 240-431-8185, isterling@smcm.edu.
Office Hours: TBA
Book: Active Calculus, Matt Boelkins. Bound copy available for about $45 at SMCM Bookstore. PDF version available at faculty.smcm.edu/isterling
Course Outline: Selected Sections from Chapters 1-5
Tests: There will be four exams (worth 80% of your course grade, 20% each). One of the four exams will be the non-comprehensive final. The exam problems will be the same or similar to those in the homework and the examples worked in class.
Dates-Times for the exams:
Wednesdays 6-7:50: 9/21 10/19 11/16
Final T 12/13 2-4:15am
Homework: Homework will be part of your grade (worth 20%). Regular homework will be collected at the beginning of class on the day its due. Late homework will not be accepted. After it is collected some of the homework problems will be selected for the TA to grade. There will also be WeBWork homework. WeBWork homework will be explained in class. The link is http://webwork.math.smcm.edu/webwork2 , our class is 151.05, your username is the name part of your smcm email address, your initial password is your student id.
Class Grading (roughly): 90-100% A,A-; 80-90% B+,B,B-; 70-80% C+,C,C; 60-70% D+,D,D-; <60% F;
Teaching Assistant: Michael Connaughton, maconnaughton@smcm.edu , phone TBA, OH TBA.
Review Sessions: Required! Wednesdays SH109 6:00-7:50
For Business Use Only:
At the completion of MATH 151, students will be able to implement the rules for taking derivatives as demonstrated by finding the derviatives of a variety of functions.
At the completion of MATH 151, students will be able to use derivatives to understand the behavior of functions as demonstrated by determining the slope and concavity of a function given partial information about the function and/or its derivatives.
At the completion of MATH 151, students will be able to interpret rates of change of various quantities as derivatives as demonstrated by solving word problems that model dynamic scenarios.
At the completion of MATH 151, students will be able to interpret the fundamental theorem of calculus as demonstrated by explaining the relationship between derivatives and integrals.
At the completion of MATH 151, students will be able to represent derivatives and integrals as demonstrated by taking a limit of approximating values.