Fall 2016
Math 132

Instructors:

Prof Blake Thornton Office: Cupples 1, Room 108A Email: bthornton@wustl.edu Office Hours:    Tuesday 1:30-2:30    Wednesday 2-3pm    Thursday 2-3     Or stop by     Or make an appointment Office Hours (Reading Week):    Tues 12-2PM    Thurs 1-3PM

Prof Kelly Bickel Office: Cupples 1, Room 207B Email: kellybickel@wustl.edu Office Hours:    Monday 2:30-3:30pm    Wednesday 1:30-2:30pm    Friday 11:30-12:30     Or make an appointment

Teaching Assistants

Marie Jose Saad: mariejose@wustl.edu

Guanshengrui Hao: ghao@math.wustl.edu

Muxi Li: muxili@math.wustl.edu

Aleesha Moran: avmoran@email.wustl.edu

Tian Wang: wt0821@math.wustl.edu

Liqun Yu: yuliqun@math.wustl.edu

Mark Mancuso: mark.mancuso@wustl.edu

Text: Stewart, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 8th edition.

We will plan to cover most/parts of chapters 5-8,11

Feel free to buy this book anywhere (but we tried to get a good deal at the bookstore). If you buy the text in the bookstore you should also have access to the ebook. Here's what you need to know to use the ebook (only if you bought the book in the bookstore!):

• Go to www.webassign.net
• Upper right hand corner of the screen "Click Enter Class Key"
• wustl 7169 8901 (please use lower case letters)
• Verify your class information "Click , Yes, This is my Class"
• Create a WebAssign account – "Click, Continue"
• Complete the next steps and fill out only the blanks that have an *. "Click Create my Account"
• Prompted for your code that you purchased at the bookstore – Enter the code exactly as it appears on the card.
• Finish the steps to complete your set up.
• Next time you enter WebAssign to access the eBook, you will enter your username, institution code (wustl) and then your password.

An earlier edition would probably work just fine too. (But this might require some fussing. I don't have an earlier edition to compare but I know editions don't change much. You can probably get a 6th edition book for $5-20 rather than the $100+ for the 8th edition.)

Are you in the right class?

Math 131 Calculus 1: Limits, Derivatives, maxima and minima, L'Hopital's Rule

Math 132 Calculus 2: Integration, area, volumes, surface area, infinite series, Taylor series

Math 233 Calculus 3: Partial derivatives, multiple integration, Green's theorem and vector calculus

Discussion Sections

You will meet with your TA every Tuesday (starting with the first Tuesday of class). In these meetings, you will learn new material and topics as well as work on problem solving. Come to these meetings prepared by doing your homework. You will have group work to do that will be graded and part of your grade. (We will drop two of these in the calculation of the grade.)

Help:

• Instructor Office Hours
• TA Office Hours: Calculus Help Room. Available M-F between 10AM-5PM.
• Cornerstone: Walk-in and scheduled mentors.
• Engineering Tutoring Services (only available to EN students)

Clickers:

• Starting the first day of class, you will need a clicker. You can check one out from the Olin Library.
• Return your clicker on the last day of class (Dec 9).
• You might have to replace the batteries at some point.
• You need to register your clicker on blackboard (this way your clicker is linked to you and you get credit).
  To do this, go to Blackboard, click on our course. In the left-hand navigation menu, click on Tools and then i>clicker Student Registration.
• Clicking in class is fun and you will earn points by doing so.
• Clicking is worth 3% of your final grade.

Percent Questions Clicked	Clicker Grade (out of 100)
70-100%	100
50-70%	50
25-50%	25
0-25%	0

Calculators:

While you are free to use any calculator for your homework, you will not be allowed to use a calculator for exams:
NO CALCULATOR ALLOWED FOR EXAMS

WeBWorK

You will do weekly homework online. You are responsible for making sure this is done by the due date.

Important! There may be more than one set due each week!

Recommended Homework

The textbook contains an enormous number of homework exercises at the end of each section. You will get the most out of the course if you do all of these (yes, I really do mean all of these). I will recommend a subset of these problems for you to focus on. These will not be collected or graded.

Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL)

The PLTL program is voluntary but highly recommended.

Applications received before 1PM on Thurs Sept 1 will be guaranteed a spot in PLTL. (Applications are open until midnight on 9/4).

More information and applications are here: PLTL at Cornerstone (PLTL Worksheets are posted here)

Study Suggestions - What to do daily and weekly

• Do ALL of the warm-up and lecture problems after lecture. Make sure you understand these problems! Do the problems both from Prof Thornton's and Prof Bickel's class.
• Read one section ahead--be prepared for lecture and discussion section. This has the risk of making lecture slightly boring with the potential benefit of understanding more.
• Do the Websork homework early.
• Do the Recommended Problems.
• Go to discussion section prepared. This means that you have attempted or done most of your homework probelms and attempted or done many of the recommended problems.
• Go to PLTL (if you are signed up) or do the PLTL problems (they are typically available after the PLTL groups get them).
• If you don't understand something, visit your instructor and TA office hours. You can see Calculus Help room for TA office hours and other suggestions on where to get help.

Study Suggestions - Advice from your RPMs

• This is a fantastic document put together by the RPMs: Calc Advice from your RPMs

Exams:

• Exams will be a mix of multiple choice questions (probably around 15-20 of these) and hand graded questions (probably 2 of these).
• The final exam will be entirely multiple choice.
• You will not be allowed anything other than writing tools at the exams.
• Find your room and seat before the exam: Exam Seating
• Find your multiple choice score the day after the exam here: Multiple Choice Exam Scores
• Old Exams
• Find all your grades here: Blackboard. Webwork grades will be uploaded to blackboard at the end of the semester.
• Do not miss an exam. If something happens contact Dr. Blake Thornton as soon as possible.
• Exams are on Tuesday evening.
• If the average of the exam is below 75% then all exam scores will be adjusted upwards by adding a constant to everyone's score so that the average is 75%.
• If the average of an exam is above 75%, no adjustments will be made.

Exam Schedule
Exam 1	Tues Sept 20, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 2	Tues Oct 25, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 3	Tues Nov 15, 6:30-8:30PM
Final	Fri Dec 16, 10:30AM-12:30PM

Grades: Your final grades will be computed according to the following formula:

	    Grade = 0.75*( e1+e2+e3+ 2*e4 - min(e1, e2, e3, e4))/4
	    + 0.12*(WeBWork)
	    + 0.10*(Group Work)
	    + 0.03*(Clicker) 
	  

Basically this means that all exams and homework are weighted equally, the final exam can replace your lowest semester exam. The other items should be self-explanatory.

A+	TBA
A	[90,infinity)
A-	[85,90)
B+	[80,85)
B	[75,80)
B-	[70,75)
C+	[65,70)
C	[60,65)
C-	[55,60)
D	[50,55)
F	[0,50)

Pass/Fail Policy: You must get at least a C- to earn a "Pass".

Disability Resources (DR): Special accommodations for exams are offered to students who have registered in a timely manner at Disability Resources (DR). Information about DR may be found at http://disability.wustl.edu/ Students who desire to take advantage of this service should go to the DR early in the semester, well before the first exam. Once approved for accommodations, students in Math 131 should work with DR for these exams.

Links and Resources

• Wolfram Alpha
• Flast Mathlets by B Kaskosz (here is a simple function grapher).
• Flash Mathlets
• Sage
• Gnu Plot
• Maxima
• Octave
• Calculus Page Problems by D Kouba
• eCalculus.Org