Spring 2016: Calculus (Math 211, Lecture 1)
INSTRUCTOR:
Manuel Gonzalez Villa, Van Vleck Assistant Professor,
(villa@math.wisc.edu)
TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
Muthusamy Balusamy, Karthi (muthusamybal@wisc.edu)
Gloe, Jacob N. (jgloe@math.wisc.edu)
Hao, Jing (jing.hao@wisc.edu)
Yang, Fan (fyang75@math.wisc.edu)
Ye, Dongxi (dye@math.wisc.edu)
LECTURES:
TR 9:30AM-10:45AM, VAN VLECK B130
DISCUSSION SESSIONS:
| SECTION |
TIME |
LOCATION |
TEACHING ASSISTANT |
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| 303 |
MoWe 08:50 - 09:40 |
Van Vleck B139 |
Yang, Fan |
| 304 |
MoWe 08:50 - 09:40 |
SOC SCI 6101 |
Gloe, Jacob N. |
| 305 |
MoWe 09:55 - 10:45 |
SOC SCI 6228 |
Ye, Dongxi |
| 306 |
MoWe 09:55 - 10:45 |
Van Vleck B139 |
Hao, Jing |
| 307 |
MoWe 13:20 - 14:10 |
Van Vleck B135 |
Muthusamy Balusamy, Karthi |
| 308 |
MoWe 13:20 - 14:10 |
Van Hise 201 |
Ye, Dongxi |
| 309 |
MoWe 14:25 - 15:15 |
Van Vleck B123 |
Gloe, Jacob N. |
| 310 |
MoWe 14:25 - 15:15 |
Van Vleck B135 |
Hao, Jing |
| 311 |
MoWe 15:30 - 16:20 |
Van Vleck B317 |
Yang, Fan |
OFFICE HOURS:
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TIME |
LOCATION |
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| Gonzalez Villa |
Tu 14:30 - 16:00 |
Van Vleck 719 |
| Muthusamy Balusamy, Karthi |
MoWe 11:00 - 12:00 |
Van Vleck 101 |
| Gloe, Jacob. N |
Tu 12:00 - 14:00 |
Van Vleck 620 |
| Hao, Jing. N |
MoWe 13:15 - 14:15 |
Van Vleck 618 |
| Yang, Fan. N |
MoWe 16:30 - 17:30 |
Van Vleck 620 |
| Ye, Dongxi |
TuTh 15:30 - 16:30 |
Van Vleck B123 |
DESCRIPTION:
Math 211 covers essential concepts of differential and integral calculus; exponential and logarithm functions and functions of several variables. This course (together with Math 210) forms an introduction to calculus and related topics designed primarily for prebusiness students and social scientists. Course Content: Functions, Derivatives and their applications, Exponential and logarithm functions, Integration and its applications, Integration techniques, Calculus of several variables, Differential equations...
TEXTBOOK:
Brief Applied Calculus, J. Stewart and D. Clegg, CENGAGE Learning, ISBN: 9781285106519
The ISBN 9780534423827 is also correct.
Check the webpage for the textbook.
One can download this pdf file containing the first chapter.
Here is a pdf file for the diagnostic text.
GRADE:
Homework: 15%, Quizzes at discussion session: 10%, Midterm 1: 20%, Midterm 2: 20 %, Final Exam: 35%.
The final grade will be curved.
The homework will be weekly and will be posted online (see bellow). There will be 7 biweekly quizzes, one each for chapter. The lowest will be dropped.
MIDTERMS AND EXAMS:
The midterm exam will be in class and will take place on March 3 and April 19 during the usual lecture time. Midterm 1 will cover chapters 1, 2 and section 3.1. Midterm 2 will cover chapters 3, and 4 with exception of 3.6 and the final part of 4.7 (Elasticity and Managing Inventory).
The final exam will be cumulative and will cover chapters 1-6 with exception of 6.3. The final exam will take place on May 12, 19:25 - 21:25. The rooms are Chamberlin 2241 and 2301.
IMPORTANT:
-Students enrolled in Discussion Sessions 305, 307 and 308 (TA's Dongxi Ye and Karthi Muthusamy Balusamy) will make the final in room Chamberlin 2241.
-Students enrolled in Discussion Sessions 303, 304, 306, 309, 310 and 311 (TA's Jacob N. Gloe, Jing Hao and Fan Yan) will make the final in room Chamberlin 2103.
All exams are closed book exams. Books, tablets, cellphones, computers, headphones, and calculators will not be permitted for exams. Bring ONLY your student ID, and pencils or pens to all exams.
If you are eligible for special consideration on exams, please let me know as soon as possible, so that I can ensure that your needs are accommodated.
Make-up exams will be considered only if there is a conflict with another university-related event, or a last-minute medical/family emergency. In the former case you need to contact your TA one week before the exam date. In the later you need to show proof of such emergency (doctor's notes, for example).
BRIEF LECTURE SCHEDULE:
We aim to cover all chapters of the textbook with the exception of section 6.3.
This plan is approximate, and might change depending on time
constraints. The following brief lecture outline will be
more accurate, and will be updated very frequently.
- Lecture 1: Tuesday, January 19
- Syllabus and introduction.
- Lecture 2: Thursday, January 21
- Lecture 3: Tuesday, January 26
- Lecture 4: Thursday, January 28
- Lecture 5: Tuesday, February 2
- Lecture 6: Thursday, February 4
- Lecture 7: Tuesday, February 9
- Lecture 8: Thursday, February 11
- Lecture 9: Tuesday, February 16
- Section 2.3 (skip Estimating Derivative Values, left as Reading Assignment).
- Lecture 10: Thursday, February 18
- Lecture 11: Tuesday, February 23
- Lecture 12: Thursday, February 25
- Lecture 13: Tuesday, March 1
- Review chapters 1, 2 and Section 3.1.
- Lecture 14: Thursday, March 3
- Midterm 1 (in class), covering Chapters 1, 2 and Section 3.1.
- Lecture 15: Tuesday, March 8
- Lecture 16: Thursday, March 10
- Lecture 17: Tuesday, March 15
- Section 3.5 (skip 3.6., for the monent, will be covered later if time is available)
- Lecture 18: Thursday, March 17
- Lecture 19: Tuesday, March 29
- Lecture 20: Thursday, March 31
- Lecture 21: Tuesday, April 5
- Lecture 22: Thursday, April 7
- Section 4.5 and 4.6. Section 4.7 was skipped (but pages 265-269 where covered in Lecture 16)
- Lecture 23: Tuesday, April 12
- Lecture 24: Thursday, April 14
- Lecture 25: Tuesday, April 19
- Lecture 26: Thursday, April 21
- Lecture 27: Tuesday, April 26
- Lecture 28: Thursday, April 28
- Section 6.1, 6.2 (Surplus) and 4.7 (Elasticity).
- Lecture 29: Tuesday, May 3
- Section 3.6 and 4.7 (elasticity), 6.2 and 6.4.
- Lecture 30: Thursday, May 5
HOMEWORK:
It will be assigned on a weekly basis on-line and will be collected
on the due date in your discussion section. Graded HW will be returned at the beginning of your discussion section.
Students are encouraged to collaborate on assignment problems in groups; however, submitted
assignments must be the work of the individual submitting the assignment. Copying any portion
of an assignment directly is academic fraud!
Late assignments will not be graded.
- Homework 1 (due on Wednesday, January 27, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 1.1:
- Required/mandatory: 8 and 42
- Recommended: 23, 24, 37-40, 43, 51, 53-60.
- Section 1.2:
- Required/mandatory: 48 and 52
- Recommended: 11-12, 15-16, 35, 43-46
- Homework 2 (due on Wednesday, February 3, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 1.3:
- Required/mandatory: 35, 40
- Recommended: 2-3, 5, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 26, 31, 43, 49, 51
- Section 1.4:
- Required/mandatory: 4, 10, 21 and 40
- Recommended: 13, 15, 17, 35, 37
- Homework 3 (due on Wednesday, February 10, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 1.5:
- Required/mandatory: 12, 36, 40
- Recommended: 14, 20, 25, 27, 29-30
- Section 1.6:
- Required/mandatory: 46,48
- Recommended: 19, 20, 27, 28, 31, 32, 43, 44, 47
- Section 2.1:
- Required/mandatory: 12, 20
- Recommended: 2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 17
- Homework 4 (due on Wednesday, February 17, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 2.2:
- Required/mandatory: 22, 30, 34, 44, 48, 50
- Recommended: 20, 37, 43, 45, 47, 49
- Homework 5 (due on Wednesday, February 24, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 2.3:
(Please notice that sometimes you are asked to use a particular Definition or Method)
- Required/mandatory: 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 20, 26, 32, 34, 38
- Recommended: 1-3, 5, 23, 24, 35-37
- Reading assignment: Subsections Applications of the Derivative and Estimating Derivative Values on pages 103-108.
- Section 2.4:
(Please notice that sometimes you are asked to use a particular Definition or Method)
- Required/mandatory: 4, 6, 24, 26, 29
- Recommended: 3, 5, 40
- Homework 6 (due on Wednesday, March 2, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 2.4:
- Required/mandatory: 31-32, 35-36 and 39.
- Section 3.1:
- Required/mandatory: 8, 10, 14, 24, 30, 33, 42, 44, 52 (not graph), 54 (not graph), 58
- Recommended: 13, 29, 33, 39, 41, 43, 51, 53, 57, 65 and 66.
- Homework 7 (due on Wednesday, March 16, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 3.2:
- Required/mandatory: 16, 20.
- Recommended: 4, 6, 14, 23-24 (read the subsection Demand curves before)
- Reading assignment: Subsection Linear Approximation on pages 148-150 and Demand curves on pages 154-155.
- Section 3.3:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 30 (a), 32 (a), 34 (a), 36, 38, 40, 42.
- Recommended: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-24, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41.
- Section 3.4:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 24, 30, 38, 44, 50 (a).
- Recommended: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 23, 29, 31.
- Homework 8 (due on Wednesday, March 30, at the beginning of your discussion session)
- Section 3.4:
- Required/mandatory: 14, 16, 18, 20, 26, 32, 36, 52 (a), 60.
- Section 3.5:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 6, 16, 18, 24, 32, 40, 54
- Recommended: 1, 5, 11, 15, 17, 22, 26, 28, 30, 45-46, 53.
- Section 4.1:
- Required/mandatory: 4, 6, 8.
- Recommended: 1, 3, 5, 9.
- Homework 9 (due on Wednesday, April 6, at the beginning of your discussion session)
No late assignment will be corrected.
Please write your name, discussion session and TA name at the top of your assignment and staple all the sheets you turn in. Please turn in only the required/mandatory exercises. Please use clear handwriting and clean presentation to easy the correction of the homework.
- Section 4.2:
- Required/mandatory: 24, 34, 36, 40, 42, 60.
- Recommended: 4, 6, 37, 38, 46, 59.
- Section 4.3:
- Required/mandatory: 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 28, 32.
- Recommended: 22, 24, 29, 33-34, 41, 42.
- Homework 10 (due on Wednesday, April 13, at the beginning of your discussion session)
No late assignment will be corrected.
Please write your name, discussion session and TA name at the top of your assignment and staple all the sheets you turn in. Please turn in only the required/mandatory exercises. Please use clear handwriting and clean presentation to easy the correction of the homework.
- Section 4.4:
- Required/mandatory: 4, 6, 12, 18, 20, 30, 32.
- Recommended: 3, 5, 7, 14, 16, 34.
- Section 4.5:
- Required/mandatory: 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28.
- Recommended: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 21, 23, 25, 27.
- Section 4.6:
- Required/mandatory: 6, 8, 12, 14, 24.
- Recommended: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 21, 22.
- Homework 11 (due on Wednesday, April 27, at the beginning of your discussion session)
No late assignment will be corrected.
Please write your name, discussion session and TA name at the top of your assignment and staple all the sheets you turn in. Please turn in only the required/mandatory exercises. Please use clear handwriting and clean presentation to easy the correction of the homework.
- Section 5.1:
- Required/mandatory: 4, 10, 12, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24 .
- Recommended: 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 19.
- Section 5.2:
- Required/mandatory: 16, 18, 20, 22, 32, 36, 42, 48, 50, 62.
- Recommended: 2, 6, 8, 24, 26, 28, 30.
- Section 5.3:
- Required/mandatory: 12, 16, 28, 30, 36.
- Recommended: 16, 18, 21, 24, 32, 34.
- Section 5.4:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 4, 8, 14, 36, 46, 48, 50.
- Recommended: 6, 12, 18, 26, 34, 42.
- Homework 12 (due on Wednesday, May 4, at the beginning of your discussion session)
No late assignment will be corrected.
Please write your name, discussion session and TA name at the top of your assignment and staple all the sheets you turn in. Please turn in only the required/mandatory exercises. Please use clear handwriting and clean presentation to easy the correction of the homework.
- Section 3.6:
- Reading assignment: Read Section 3.6 as preparation for the lecture on Tuesday, May 3.
- Section 4.7:
- Required/mandatory: 20, 28, 29, 32.
- Recommended: 19, 30, 31, 33.
- Section 5.5:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 6, 12, 14, 20.
- Recommended: 1, 4, 8, 10, 16.
- Section 6.1:
- Required/mandatory: 2, 4, 16, 19, 20, 22, 27, 34, 36.
- Recommended: 10, 18, 31, 33
- Section 6.2:
- Required/mandatory: 6, 10, 18, 27, 24, 26.
- Recommended: 5, 11, 13, 17, 23.
QUIZZES:
There will be 5 quizzes, one each for chapter. The lowest will be dropped.
OTHER RESOURCES:
The university and math department offers helps for students in need.
Mathlab Free, drop-in tutorial program offered by math department. Staffed primarily by Mathematics Department teaching assistants. free!
Tutorial Program. Also offered by math department. Limited seating, please visit Frank Rooney (frooney@math.wisc.edu) in Van Vleck 320 for signing up. free!
Guts Guts(The Greater University Tutoring Service) is supported by the university with volunteer tutors. Check the link for more details. free!
University Residence Halls Academic Tutoring
Private Tutors. Lastly, if you prefer, some math department graduates offer tutoring services. Check the link for more details.