OnCourse-- where I post less public course information, such as:

• (Occasionally) Exam scores
• Background Questionnaire for you to fill out
• Study Guides
• Additional course readings, if there are any

WeBWorK

• Daily assignments
• Portions of each week's problem set

The Honor Code

• Wheaton's Honor Code
• Wheaton's Description of Plagiarism

Tips on Getting Through the First Week of Class

Course Policies

Syllabus

Suggestions for Reading a Math Text

Problem Sets - Includes weekly problem sets and occasional group problem sets

• A Description of Calculus 2 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

• August and September
• October
• November and December

Graphing Technology

• Etiquette for using computers during class
• We will be using the computar algebra system Maple to help with graphing and with large sums in this class (but not on exams).
  • This is a very powerful program -- it can do much more than a graphing calculator can.
  • 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 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 1306
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278
jsklensk@wheatonma.edu