Fall 2020
Math 233

Instructors:

Prof Blake Thornton
Office: Cupples 1, Room 108A
Email: bthornton@wustl.edu
Office Hours: See Google Course Calendar

Prof Yanli Song
Office: Cupples 1 116
Email: yanlisong@wustl.edu
Office Hours: See Google Course Calendar

Prof Ben Wormleighton
Office: TBA
Email: benw@wustl.edu
Office Hours: See Google Course Calendar

Assistants to Instructors

	Name	Email	Sections
1	Mary Barker	marybarker@wustl.edu	P, T, W
1	Bowei Zhao	b.zhao@wustl.edu	C, K, U, X
2	Tengzhou Hu	thu24@wustl.edu	A, B, N
2	Hao Zhuang	hzhuang@wustl.edu	H, O, Q
3	Nathan Lesnevich	nlesnevich@wustl.edu	E, J, L
3	Jodi McWhirter	jodi.mcwhirter@wustl.edu	D, G, S
4	Tyler Williams	tgwilliams@email.wustl.edu	CC, DD, EE
4	Victor Macia Medina	victor.macia@wustl.edu	Z, AA, BB

Lecture:

Lecture will be asynchronous videos that you can find on canvas.
Go to canvas pages, and you should find lectures organized by week.
Each lecture video is less than 15 minutes long, most are 2-5 minutes.
Most lecture videos will model a problem from the workbook. Follow along and then do the workbook problems on your own. (Workbook answers are posted in "Canvas-->Files".)
If you are stuck or not understanding (which will be everyone at some point), you should attend help sessions, office hours or visit the Math Help Room.

Help and Assistant Office Hours: Mathematics Help Room.

You are encouraged to attend at any open time--all available assistants should be able to help you with our course.

Syllabus

At the link above (which should take you to the bottom of this page), you can find information on textbook, discussion sections, help, clickers, calculators, homework, PLTL, study suggestions, exams, grades, grading scale and more.

Tentative Schedue:

The schedule is tentative and will be updated regularly.
(We will do our best to follow this schedule but don't be surprised if topics are shifted from one week to another as the semester progresses.)

How to follow this schedule:

The Friday test/quiz will cover all the material for the week so you should be done with this material by Wednesday to ask questions at help sessions and/or office hours before the test/quiz.
Webwork will also cover this same material, but Webwork is due on Sunday night. We recommend you complete your Webwork by Thursday night (we added this time cushion for your benefit).
The Tuesday discussion section will also cover the material for the week. A couple points to note here:
1. Videos for the week will be posted starting the previous Tuesday.
  Ideally you will watch most of the lecture videos for the week before the Tuesday section, but don't stress too much if you haven't been able to watch and digest all of these by Tuesday.
2. We would have preferred Thursday discussion sections but we were restricted by room availability.
3. Everything this semester is a learning process. We've made some adjustments below based on student feedback and we're hopeful that this will make the rest of the semester a bit smoother.
4. The last week of class is a bit of an oddball. We will discuss quiz and final exam specifics that week.

Week	Dates	Quiz/Exam Sections Recommended Homework Exercises From Stewart Text (Schedule Tentative)	Notes	Exams/Quizzes
1	Sept 14-18	12.1: 1-42 12.2: 1-28 12.3: 1-32	First day of class: Mon Sept 14 First Synchronous Meeting: Tues Sept 15	Fri Morning: Quiz 1
2	Sept 21-25	12.4: 1-36 12.5: 1-60 12.6: 1-40		Fri Morning: Exam 1
3	Sept 28 - Oct 2	13.1: 1-30 13.2: 3-28 13.3: 1-18		Fri Morning: Quiz 2
4	Oct 5-9	14.1: 1-16, 21-33, 45-54, 61-70 14.2: 1, 5-34, 41-53		Fri Morning: Exam 2
5	Oct 12-16	14.3: 4-5, 8-52, 57-64 14.4: 1-10, 15-24 14.5: 1-16, 25-38		Fri Morning: Quiz 3
6	Oct 19-23	14.6: 4-32, 47-52 14.7: 1-22 (Workbook Problems 1-16)		Fri Morning: Exam 3
7	Oct 26-30	14.7: 33-40 (Workbook Problems 17-22) 14.8: 3-16, 27-33, 54-58		Fri Morning: Quiz 4
8	Nov 2-6	15.1: 9-33 15.2: 1-28, 47-50, 55-66 15.3: 1-20, 29-37, 39-42		Fri Morning: Exam 4
9	Nov 9-13	15.6: 1-26 15.7: 1-27		Fri Morning: Quiz 5
10	Nov 16-20	15.8: 1-40, 43-45 16.1: 1-22, 25-34 (workbook problems 1-15) 16.5: 1-34 (Workbook 16.1 questions 16-29))		Fri Morning: Exam 5
11	Nov 23-27	No New Material Discussion Sections Still Meet!	Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri Discussion Sections Still Meet!	No Quiz/Exam this week
12	Nov 30 - Dec 4	16.2: 1-24 16.3: 3-24		Fri Morning: Quiz 6
13	Dec 7-11	16.4: 1-18 16.6: 1-6, 13-26, 39-50		Fri Morning: Exam 6
14	Dec 14-18	16.7: 3-20	Last day of class Friday	Fri Morning: Quiz 7
15	Jan 4-10, 2021	Final Exam Jan 4, 3:30-5:30PM

Text 0 (Lecture Notes): Calculus 3 Lecture Workbook

You will almost certainly want a physical copy of this to work through as it contains the problems that we will work through in lecture. Solutions/answers will be posted in the schedule above as we work through the book.
Feedback from students: Most, but not all previous students generally reported this text as being useful. Many students reported that every student should be required to have a physical copy of this workbook.

Text 1 (Textbook): Stewart, Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 9th edition.

We will plan to cover most of chapters 12-16

Officially, I will be using the 9th edition, Early Transcendentals, but only as a rough guide. You will okay with any edition (5-9) of this textbook.
Feedback from students: In past semester, many students have reported that they bought this book but did not use it. Despite these students' reports, we still believe that it is a useful reference. I recommend going the cheapest route possible, some options are listed below. I see absolutely no advantage to the 9th edition over the 8th or 7th editions. The best students both read the book as well as do the exercises in the book.

There are many options for acquiring this book, and I'm sure you can find additional options.
Note, for some reason some of the amazon links below look like they link to the "International Metric Version." I've never seen this book before, but it is probably exactly the same except for meters instead of feet. I'm quite certain that you will be fine purchashing this version.

Bookstore. They may have both new and used copies.
Amazon, Edition 8
Amazon, Edition 7
Amazon, Edition 6
Amazon, Edition 5

For my money, I would buy a copy of the 6th or 7th edition, used, from Amazon for about $10-20.

Webassign is NOT necessary. If you order the Stewart ebook through the publisher, you might be given webassign access, but this isn't important for our course.

Textbooks, Digital vs Physical:

While I've seen more and more students effectively use digital textbooks, I believe that most, if not all, students learn more easily from a physical textbook. The work in the course is designed for you to actually do physical work in so I strongly suggest you get a physical workbook. A physical Stewart text is actually cheaper (if you get an old edition) than a legal digital version.

Textbooks: WebAssign: Not Required!

The digital version of the Stewart text is generally delivered using WebAssign. You do not need this! See the textbook information above. If you buy the digital Stewart text, then you will probably buy this, but it is not necessary!

Are you in the right class? We want you to succeed, without repeating a large amount of material.

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

Google Course Calendar:

You can find a calendar on the course including instructor office hours below.

Discussion Sections

You will meet with your Assistant to Instructor (AI) every Tuesday (starting with the first Tuesday of classes). 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.

Students who selected "online learning" should be sure to be enrolled in an online section.

Where to go for Help:

Instructor Office Hours.
Assistant to Instructor Office Hours: Mathematics Help Room. Available M-F between 10AM-5PM.
The Learning Center
Learning Center - Calculus
Engineering Tutoring Services (only available to EN students)

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.

Canvas

You can find your grades, access WeBWorK and more at Canvas. All the sections are merged into section 1, so log on to Math 132, section 1.

WeBWorK

Webwork is due every Sunday evening, but you should try get it done before the Friday Exam/Quiz--problems on WeBWorK will likely be relevant to the exam/quiz.

To log in, go to Canvas and click on "Assignments."

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. I will recommend a subset of these problems for you to focus on. These will not be collected or graded.

Exams and Quizzes:

Every week will alternate between a quiz and an exam. These will be online every Friday morning. You will need to find an hour to take this in the time period 7AM-11AM every Friday. The quizzes and exams are timed and you have an hour to complete each quiz or exam. Quizzes will be multiple choice and completed on Canvas. Exams will be written and turned in via Crowdmark. To use Crowdmark, you will need to take photos of your written work and turn it your photos which we will grade. (More information to come.) See the course schedule above for the quiz/exam schedule.

Final Exam

The final exam will be as scheduled.

Exam/Quiz Policies: Exam and Quizzes are open book, and you may use a calculator. Your answers must be solely your own work and so online or in-person collaboration with others during Exams or Quizzes is prohibited.

Study Suggestions - What to do daily and weekly

Read the relevant section in the Stewart text before watching the lecture videos.
Watch the lecture videos and then do ALL of the relevant workbook problems after lecture. Make sure you understand these problems! (You can find answers in "Canvas-->Files".)
Go back through the Stewart text after watching the video to help understand anything that you might have missed.
Do the WebWork homework early.
Do the Recommended Problems from the Stewart text.
Go to your discussion section prepared. This means that you have:

Watched the lecture videos for the week.
Read the relevant sections in the Stewart text.
Worked on the relevant workbook problems.
Looked at and at least started the WeBWorK 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 Mathematics Help room for assistant office hours and other suggestions on where to get help.

What to do every week?

Read the Stewart text for the relevant sections to be covered.
(Hint: Most students don't do this. If you do this you will be ahead of the curve.)
Watch the recorded videos. These will be posted by Thursday for the following week. Canvas Pages
Tuesday: Attend your discussion section.
Do the additional workbook problems that weren't in the lecture. (You can find answers in "Canvas-->Files".)
Attend help sessions, office hours and the Mathematics Online Help Room if (when) you get stuck on the workbook problems, webwork problems or you just don't understand. Drop by any of those locations and just hang out--maybe someone will ask a question you have.
Attend PLTL on the weekend if you have signed up for PLTL.
Attend RPM hours for help.
Do the Webwork homework. Ideally you should do this before the quizzes/exams, but we gave some leeway for the due date.
Take a quiz/exam every Friday morning. These will be inside Canvas and submitted either on canvas or in Crowdmark (more on this later). Quizzes/tests will cover material from the previous week and up to 2/3 of the material from the current week.
Look at the Google Course Calendar.

Grades: Your final grades will be computed according to the following formula and grading scale.

      Grade = 0.40*(Exams) + 0.1*(Final Exam) + 0.25*(Quizzes ) + 0.15*(WeBWork) + 0.10*(Discussion Work)

We will drop the lowest three discussion section grades, the lowest four webworks, the lowest two quizzes and your lowest exam.

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".

Corona Virus:

What should students do if they must participate remotely? This could happen, for example, if you have to quarantine or if you fail a self-screening. Contact your instructor and we'll work out a plan to move you to an online section.

What if the instructor of a discussion section gets sicks or must participate remotely? We will work hard to stay healthy, but we may be forced to move some sections to online or find alternate instructors.

What will happen if the university is forced to move all classes online mid-semester? Then we will have to move to online only classes. We are all working really diligently so that this does not happen.

What should students expect in the classroom, and how must they conduct themselves? We will all follow the university's guidelines--masks, distancing, etc. We will have more details soon.

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 https://students.wustl.edu/disability-resources/.

For our class, this means that you must let your instructor know of your accommodation and we will work with you.

Fall 2020 Math 233

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Fall 2020
Math 233