SYLLABUS
MATH 151.01 Calculus I Spring 2019
Instructor: Ivan C. Sterling, 177 SH, cell 240-431-8185, isterling@smcm.edu.
Office Hours: TBA
Book: Active Calculus 2.0, Matt Boelkins. Bound copy available at Amazon or SMCM Bookstore. PDF version available at https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/15/ . It is highly recommended that you have the online version available. It is required that you bring one or the other to every class period and review session.
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:
Tuesdays 6-7:50: 2/5 3/5 4/2
Final Tuesday 9-11:15am 5/7
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.
Extra Credit: You can earn up to three extra credit points by attending NSM colloquia and giving me an at most two paragraph summary of the lecture. Two extra points for a Math or CS colloquium, otherwise one extra credit point. Typically these are Wednesdays at 4:40 in SH106.
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: Allison Tesch, astesch@smcm.edu , 443-789-3929, OH TBA.
Review Sessions: Required! Tuesdays SH109 6:00-7:50
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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.