Syllabus: Calculus I, Math 251, section 1 , Spring 2007W. Ethan DuckworthOffice: 301g Knott HallPhone: (410) 617 – 2607Email: educkworth ‘‘at’’ loyola.eduWebpage: http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~educkworthHonor Code: For the tests and quizzes in this class you must not give or receive any aid. For the homeworkand workshops you are encouraged to work with other students, but the work you turn in should bein your own words and should be understood by you.Classroom format: We meet four times a week as shownM, W, F 9:00 – 9:50 Knott Hall 007 & T 8:00 – 9:15 Knott Hall 005In general, most days will start with some time for questions on the homework. Then I’ll present somenew material, we’ll discuss it a little bit, and then have you practice it. If we have something thatmight take a big chunk of time (e.g. quizzes, midterms, workshops, etc.) then I might put that onTuesday, where we have a longer class period.Class material: The textbook is Calculus: early transcendentals, sixth edition, by James Stewart. You canhave either the single variable version if you don’t think you are going to take Calc III, or you canhave the multivariable version if you think you are going to take Calc III (and you don’t mind carryingaround a really big book).You might also want to have a calculator (for most people this means a TI-8n where 0 ≤ n ≤ 6) (seeitem below too) and access to a com puter.Grade Breakdown: Your grade will be based on the following percentages for each category of the course.Homework Quizzes Workshops Midterms Final exam10% 10% 10% 20%, 15%, 10% 25%(highest to lowest)To calculate your grade you take your average in each category, multiply it by the percentage thatcategory is worth, and add these up. Here’s an exampleYour scoresHW Quizzes Workshops MT1 MT2 MT3 FX83% 75% 80% 60% 88% 75% 90%Your grade .1(.83) + .1(.75) + .1(.8) + .1(.6) + .2(.88) + .15(.75) + .25(.9) = .8115If you want to calculate your grade part-way through the semester, there is no perfect way to decidehow to weight the components, but the simplest thing to do is to use the percentages given above, andthen to divide by the total of the percentages in the available categories. For example, after the firsttwo midterms you might haveYour scoresHW Quizzes Workshops MT1 MT283% 75% 80% 60% 88%Your grade.1(.83) + .1(.75) + .1(.8) + .1(.6) + .2(.88).1 + .1 + .1 + .1 + .2= .790So what do I do with the total percentage? Here’s how the breakdown works:A ≥ 93 B+ ≥ 87 C+ ≥ 77 D ≥ 60A− ≥ 90 B ≥ 83 C ≥ 73 F ≥ 0B− ≥ 80 C− ≥ 70Extra Credit: I will offer a small amount of extra credit in this class. Each day I will keep track ofattendance and participation. Perfect attendance and participation will give you an extra 2 percentagepoints in your class total.For people w ho are really struggling with the class, I sometimes make other offers for a small numberof percentage points, usually targeted towards something that I think will help the student.How to get the grade you want: The biggest part of the total grade is from exams. To do well onexams, you really need to practice doing problems; do them until you make no mistakes, and then doone more. Still, most people don’t do quite as well on exams as they would like. In this case you needyour other scores (including extra credit) to bring your exams up.Here’s a typical example of some grades:Typical A student: Exam average 88%, Other scores 96%, Extra credit 2%, total average 92.4Typical C student: Exam average 70%, Other scores 80%, Extra credit 0.5%, total average 73.5Attendance: You do not need to attend this class however:1. Students who attend regularly always do better than those who do not.2. Attendance gives extra credit towards the total grade.3. You’re paying huge amounts of money to come to Loyola; maybe $2000 for this class. Interactingwith the other students and me is part of what you are paying for.4. I’d rather everyone come to class. However, I would rather that you stay home than sleep in class!This is purely personal: you might actually absorb something by sleeping in class, but I find thatseeing a sleeping student saps my energy, drains my enthusiasm, makes me feel like I’m failing asa teacher, makes me want to look at the board instead of the class, and starts a horrible swirlingvortex of gloom and despair. Ok. Maybe not all of that, but still. . .5. I’ll keep track of what we have covered in class each day, and send out emails with a briefdescription. I will try not to repeat too much, so if you miss class and an example that wecovered, I will suggest that you look at a classmate’s notes.Note taking: The most time-efficient way of learning material is to come to class each day, pay attentionin class, take good notes, and then go over the notes later. If you do this, you can learn a huge amountin the four hours we have together each week + 1-2 hours going over notes later. (In contrast a studentlearning on their own will often spend 5-6 hours just being really frustrated and stuck.)What are good notes? That will be different for each person. The minimal would be to have a clearrecord of each example, with explanations. Many people will want to write down everything I put onthe board. Some people will also want to write down some of what I say. In any case, you should tryto make the notes clear, so that you can look at them later. A lot of people find that it’s nice to havea large margin, so that they can insert comments or additional explanations later.Homework: There’s a bunch of points to make about homework.• Mathematics is very experiential. What this means is that you learn it most by doing, not bylistening to me. My purpose is just to give you the basic material that you will work with, topoint you at the next topic, and to help keep you from getting stuck.• There’ll be two kinds of homework problems:1. Textbook problems. These will be collected, some of the problems will be graded, and otherswill be just checked off.22. WebWork problems. WebWork is a web-based homework grading system. It has pros andcons. Pros: every problem gets graded, instant feedback, etc. Cons: need to sign on, need tolearn which buttons to press, the computer is unforgiving of small mistakes, etc.Obviously I believe that the pros out way the cons, and I will do whatever I can to minimizeproblems.• We’ll have two assignments per week, we can decide on which days they’ll be due together. Eachof these