Fall 2011
(Last modified: Friday, December 2, 2011, 2:29 PM )
| RA | refers to daily Reading assignments | ||||||||||||
| WW | refers to weekly WeBWorK assignments | ||||||||||||
| PS | refers to weekly handwritten problem sets | ||||||||||||
| This syllabus is being adjusted as we go along | |||||||||||||
| Monday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ||||||||||
| 8/29 | 8/31 | Cancelled | 9/1 | Welcome to Calculus I | 9/2 | WeBWorK orientation | |||||||
| Course Policies & Syllabus | |||||||||||||
| Quick Review of Sections 0.1, 0.2 | |||||||||||||
| Introduce WeBWorK | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||||
| 9/5 | Labor Day | 9/7 | Quick review of Sections 0.3 | 9/8 | More on Section 0.5 | 9/9 | Review of Section 0.6 | ||||||
| through 0.5 | WW 1 due at 5pm | ||||||||||||
| WW orientation due Tuesday @ 5pm | Questions: PS 1 | ||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||||
| PS 1 (individual) due at 1pm | |||||||||||||
| 9/12 | 1.1: Preview of Calculus | 9/14 | 1.2: The Concept of Limits | 9/15 | 1.3: Computing Limits | 9/16 | 1.5: Limits Involving Infinity | ||||||
| 1.2: The Concept of Limits | 1.4: Contiinuity & Its Consequences | 1.4: Continuity & Its Consequences | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||
| 1.4: Continuity & Its Consequences | |||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | RA due at 8am | PS 2 (group) due at 1pm | |||||||||||
| Assessments (1st try) due at 5pm | WW 2 due at 5pm | ||||||||||||
| Questions: PS 2 | |||||||||||||
| 9/19 | 1.5: Limits Involving Infinity | 9/21 | 2.1: Tangent Lines and | 9/22 | 2.1: Tangent Lines and | 9/23 | 2.2: The Derivative | ||||||
| RA due at 8am | Velocity | Velocity | |||||||||||
| Deadline to pass Assessments | RA due at 8am | RA due at 8am | |||||||||||
| WW 3 due at 5pm | PS 3 (individual) due at 1pm | ||||||||||||
| Questions: PS 3 | |||||||||||||
| 9/26 | 2.3: The Power Rule | 9/28 | Q & A for Exam 1 | 9/29 | Exam 1 | 9/30 | 2.3: Higher Order Derivatives | ||||||
| (Covers Thru Part of Section | 2.4: Product & Quotient Rules | ||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | WW 4 due at 7pm | 2.3) | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||
| 10/3 | 2.5: The Chain Rule | 10/5 | Begin working on Project 1 | 10/6 | Continue working on Project 1 | 10/7 | 2.6: Derivatives of Trig Fns | ||||||
| RA due at 8am | PS 5 (group) due at 1pm | RA due at 8am | |||||||||||
| WW 5 due at 7pm | |||||||||||||
| Questions: PS 5 | |||||||||||||
| 10/10 | October Break | 10/12 | 2.7: Derivs of Exponential | 10/13 | Practice Differentiating | 10/14 | 2.9: The Mean Value Theorem | ||||||
| and Logarithmic Fns | and Antidifferentiating | Differentiation Exam | |||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | WW 6 due at 7pm | RA due at 8am | |||||||||||
| Questions: PS 6 | PS 6 (individual) due at 11:30am | ||||||||||||
| 10/17 | 2.9: The Mean Value Theorem | 10/19 | Lab: Maximum and Minimum | 10/20 | 3.3: Maximum and Minimum Values | 10/21 | 3.3: Maximum and Minimum Values | ||||||
| 3.2: Indeterminate Forms | Values | PS 7 (group) due at 1pm | 3.4: Increasing and | ||||||||||
| and l'Hopital's Rule | RA not due at 8am | RA due at 8am | Decreasing Functions | ||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | Exam 1 Redo due at 2pm | RA due at 8am | |||||||||||
| WW 7 due at 7pm | |||||||||||||
| Project 1 due- Postponed | Questions: PS 7 | Project 1 due | |||||||||||
| 10/24 | 3.4: Increasing and | 10/26 | Q & A for Exam 2 | 10/27 | Exam 2 | 10/28 | 3.5: Concavity and the 2nd | ||||||
| Decreasing Functions | Derivative Test | ||||||||||||
| 3.5: Concavity & the 2nd Deriv Test | |||||||||||||
| Diff Deadline - 100% | (Covers thru Section | ||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | WW 8 due at midnight | 3.4) | |||||||||||
| 10/31 | 3.6:Overview of Curve- | 11/2 | 3.7: Optimization | 11/3 | 3.7: Optimization | 11/4 | Taylor Polynomials | ||||||
| Sketching | RA due at 8am | RA due at 8am | (Handout) | ||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | WW 9 due at 7pm | PS 9 (individual) due at 1pm | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||
| Diff Deadline - 90% | Questions: PS 9 | ||||||||||||
| 11/7 | 3.7: More on Optimization | 11/9 | Taylor Polynomials | 11/10 | Begin Working on Project 2 | 11/11 | Continue working on Proect 2 | ||||||
| (Handout) | PS 10 (group) due at 1pm | Exam 2 Redo due at 2pm | |||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||||
| WW 10 due at 7pm | |||||||||||||
| Questions: PS 10 | |||||||||||||
| 11/14 | More on Taylor Polynomials | 11/16 | Area and Integrals (Handout) | 11/17 | Area Function & Slopes | 11/18 | The Fundamental Theorem | ||||||
| Area and Integrals (Handout) | The Area Function (Handout) | (Handout) | of Calculus (Handout) | ||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | PS 11 (individual) due at 1pm | RA due at 8am | |||||||||||
| WW 11 due at 7pm | |||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | Questions: PS 11 | ||||||||||||
| 11/21 | The FTC (continued) | 11/23 | 11/24 | 11/25 | |||||||||
| (Handout) | |||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | Thanksgiving Break | ||||||||||||
| Project 2 due | |||||||||||||
| 11/28 | The FTC, continued | 11/30 | Q & A for Exam 3 | 12/1 | Exam 3 | 12/2 | 4.6: Integration by | ||||||
| 4.6: Integration by | WW 12 due at midnight | (Covers thru the FTC) | Substitution, continued | ||||||||||
| Substitution-Intro | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | |||||||||||||
| Diff Deadline - 75% | |||||||||||||
| 12/5 | Approximating Sums: The | 12/7 | Approxiating Sums: The | 12/8 | Approximating Sums: The | 12/9 | The Big Picture | ||||||
| Integral as Limit (Handout) | Integral as a Limit (Handout) | Integral as a Limit (Handout) | RA due at 8am | ||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | 4.2: Sums & Sigma Notation | Questions: PS 13 | WW 13 due at 7pm | ||||||||||
| RA due at 8am | Diff Deadline - 50% | ||||||||||||
| The final will be Monday, December 12/12, from 2pm - 5pm | |||||||||||||
Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 327
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278
jsklensk@wheatonma.edu