Spring 2006
Math 128

Instructor:Blake Thornton, Cupples I 204A, 935-6301
Email:
Web Page: http://www.dehn.wustl.edu/~blake/m128/
Office Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 12-1:00PM (subject to change)
Talk to me for an appointment at other times.
(I am likely to often be in my office, please feel free to stop by!)
Text: Barnett, Ziegler and Byleen, Applied Calculus, 8th edition
We will cover chapters 6-12.
Prerequisites: Math 127
Outside help:
Calculus Help Room
Calculus Help Desk at Cornerstone
Cornerstone
Homework and Webwork
In addition to the graded Webwork assignments, I will also assign homework (not to be turned in). The homework assigned is to be considered a bare minimum of homework that you should do. "A" students will generally do nearly every homework problem in the exercise sections.
Quizzes:
There will be a quiz in every discussion section. Of these, the lowest 4 scores will be discarded before the quiz grade is calculated. At most 2 of the dropped scores may come from among the last 4 quiz scores (this is supposed to encourage you to keep coming to class).

If you miss a quiz for whatever reason a "0" is assigned for that quiz. There are no makeup quizzes, so don't waste your "discards" by not showing up - save them for days when illness or some other genuine problem keeps you away.

Students who add the course late And therefore do not have the chance to take all 10 quizzes) can drop a proportionally smaller number of quiz scores.

Quizzes are handgraded and graded out of 6 points. There are no regrades---if your answer is not clear enough to get the credit the first time around you need to work on making your work and answer clear.

Calculators:
NON graphing calculators are fine to use on exams and quizzes, but graphing calculators are not allowed.
Exams and grades:
There will be three evening exams:
Test 1 Feb 6, 6:30-8:30PM
Test 2 March 6, 6:30-8:30PM
Test 3 April 3, 6:30-8:30PM
Final Thursday, May 4, 3:30-5:30PM
A conflicting travel reservation is NOT a valid excuse for missing the final.

Material to be covered on each exam will be announced in class.

Exam rooms will be assigned before each test. They can be looked up online at the Math department homepage or at: Exam seat lookup

Exam Materials You should bring the following equipment to each exam:

Please do not bring: The exams will consist of a number of multiple choice questions, whose answers you will mark on an answer card for reading by a scanning machine. A portion of each evening exam (perhaps not the final) will consist of a free-response, lovingly hand-graded question, for which partial credit will be given.

Results can be looked up on Telesis (experimental for me, lets hope it works): Telesis

After the results are back, there will be a limited period of time during which you can look at the papers in the Math office to raise questions about mismarked cards and similar issues. After the holding period they will be returned in your discussion section.

Missed Exams Legitimate excuses for missing an exam (verified illness, serious family emergencies, etc.) in all calculus courses must be approved by Professor Jack Shapiro, preferably in advance. Having one person approve excused absences for all courses helps to guarantee that all students receive uniform treatment. An unexcused absence results in a score of "0" on the exam in question.

If you are excused by Prof. Shapiro from one of the in-semester exams, you will not be given a make-up test. Instead, the method of "multiple linear regression analysis" will be used to estimate your missing score. The method is rather complicated (for details take one of our excellent courses in linear statistics), but it takes into account your performance on the other three exams, and the class' performance as well. Hence you're not penalized if the exam you missed was one on which everybody else had high scores.

Students who have an excused absence from the final will take a make-up test, usually early in the next semester.

15% Quizzes 4 quizzes dropped
15% Webwork  
70% Test 1 Feb 6, 6:30-8:30PM
Test 2 March 6, 6:30-8:30PM
Test 3 April 3, 6:30-8:30PM
Final Thursday, May 4, 3:30-5:30PM
All exams and the final will be weighted equally. The lowest exam can be replaced by the score on the final exam.

Grades will be assigned according to the scale
90-100 A80-89 B65-79 C50-64 D0-49 F
The final numerical grade in this course will be computed as follows: