OnCourse: Where I post activities and less public course information, such as:

• Responding to the Reading Assignments
• Background Questionnaire for you to fill out
• Supplementary materials reviewing topics before Chapter 0
• Additional course readings
• Study Guides

WeBWorK

Tips on Getting Through the First Week of Class

Course Policies

Syllabus

Reading Assignments

• Reading assignments are due at 8am, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
• Make a solid attempt to answer the questions - I don't grade on correctness, but I do on effort.
• Every question implicitly ends with "explain your answer".
• Write your answers in complete sentences.

• Suggestions for Reading a Math Book
• Due in September
• Due in October
• Due in November and December

Homework

• A Description of Calculus 1 Homework Assignments - How they work, expectations, etc.
• General Guidelines for Problem Set Presentation
• Due in September
• Due in October
• Due in November and December

In Class Work

• September
• October
• November and December

Projects

• Project 1
• Project 2

Graphing Technology

• You will need to have access to graphing technology one way or another for this class.
  • If you have one, a graphing calculator is fine (but you can't graph during exams).
  • Often, the on-line search engine WolframAlpha is enough for your Calc 1 needs also.
  • Another option is the computer algebra system Maple.
    • This is a very powerful program, and will be used a little in Calc 2 and a lot in Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, etc -- so if you think you're likely to take a lot of math, you may want to dive into it.
    • As long as your computer is connected to the campus network (wireless is okay) and your computer has a recent enough operating system, you may use Maple on it. Here are instructions for downloading Maple onto your computer, be it Mac or PC.
    • The new versions of Maple have gotten very interactive, and more intuitive -- so much so that it's hard to write instructions. That being said, here I have is a link to an old list of some of the Maple commands from a previous version of Maple. It's not completely updated for Maple 15 yet, but it should give you a good place to start, at any rate. You may also find it just as easy to come ask me about it.
  • Mike Pepe of Seattle Community College created a set of Maple tutorials called Maple Essentials . They were created for a significantly older version of Maple, but may still be useful. If you're using a PC, right-click on the link and select Save Target As ... and save the file to the desktop. If you're using a Mac, control-click or right-click on the link and select Save Linked File to Desktop. Then locate the file MapleEssentials.zip on your desktop and double-click on it to open it. (On a Mac, this creates a folder called Maple Essentials on your desktop, that you then open to find all the tutorial files).

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