Fall 2017
Math 132

Instructors:

Prof Blake Thornton Office: Cupples 1, Room 108A Email: bthornton@wustl.edu Office Hours: See Calendar     Or make an appointment

Prof Yasha Berchenko-Kogan Office: Cupples 1, Room 207A Email: yasha@wustl.edu Office Hours: See Calendar     Or make an appointment

Assistants to Instructors

Ben Castor: bcastor@wustl.edu

Josh Covey: covey@wustl.edu

Chris Felder: cfelder@wustl.edu

Yingxuan Li: yli@math.wustl.edu

Jeff Norton: janorton@wustl.edu

Naga Vempati: m.vempati@wustl.edu

Qi Wang: qi.wang@wustl.edu

Zoe Yu: chuyi@wustl.edu

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

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

I will be using the 8th edition, Early Transcendentals. You should be okay with any edition but you will have less annoyances the closer you are to the 8th edition. Getting a non-early-transcendentals book is probably fine too, but you will have some annoyances to deal with.

Buying options:

• Anywhere you can find it (we tried to get a good deal at the bookstore).
• 8th Edition at Amazon
• 7th Edition at Amazon
• 6th Edition at Amazon
• 5th Edition at Amazon
• Downloaded pdf (you find it)
• Direct from the publisher

For my money, I would buy a copy of the 7th edition, used, from Amazon for about $10. If you can handle reading a pdf book, which can be annoying, the pdf option might be good.

E-Text:

If you buy the book from the bookstore with an access code, then you can get access to the ebook. THIS IS NOT REQUIRED or even recommended, but it is something you might find useful.

What you need to know:

• Create an account and log on to Webassign
• Course Title: SCalcET8
• Class Key: wustl 7848 1125
• Textbook: Calculus: Early Transcendentals - 8e
• Click on "eBook" (Actually, I'm not 100% sure about all this but these are the instructions I received from the publisher)

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 Assistant to Instructor 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
• Assistant to Instructor Office Hours: Calculus Help Room. Available M-F between 10AM-5PM.
• Cornerstone: Walk-in and scheduled mentors.
• Cornerstone Calendar
• 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 8).
• 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

Log on to blackboard Math 132, go to "Content" then click "Webwork".

Here screen shots of what webwork logon should look like.

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!

Collaboration: Feel free to work together but remember, you have to be able to perform by yourself on exams!

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. If you want to participate, you must sign up the first week of class by completing an Application

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!
• 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 WebWork homework early.
• Do the Recommended Problems.
• Go to discussion section prepared. This means that you have attempted or done most of your homework problems 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 Assistant office hours. You can see Calculus Help room for assistant 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
• View past exams here: Old Exams (some semesters are more helpful than others).
• 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.
• The final exam covers all material from the course.
• Exams are on Tuesday evening.
• Curving:
  • 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.
  • Example: You get a 80% on Exam 1 and the actual average of Exam 1 is 50.0%. Thus, everyone will receive 25.0 "curve points" for Exam 1. Your score (to be used in grade calculations) for Exam 1 will therefore be 105%.

Exam Schedule

Exam Schedule
Exam 1	Tues Sept 12, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 2	Tues Oct 10, 6:30-8:30PM
Exam 3	Tues Nov 14, 6:30-8:30PM
Final	Fri Dec 15, 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
• Flash Mathlets by B Kaskosz
• Sage
• Gnu Plot
• Maxima
• Octave
• Calculus Page Problems by D Kouba
• eCalculus.Org
• Slader - Textbook Solutions