MCS 119, Calculus with Pre-Calculus Review 1b, Section 2
(1:30-2:20 MTuThF in OHS 328)

Syllabus: Here is the syllabus.

Office hours for the rest of the semester: These are held on Google Meets. The meeting code is aqc-ymhm-zfu.

• 2:30-4:00 Wed, 5/20
• 3-4:30 Fri, 5/22
• 3:30-5 Sun, 5/24
• 3-4:30 Mon, 5/25

Calculus tutoring center: The tutoring center in OHS 329 is currently closed and to the best of my information is not likely to resurrect online.

Online resources:

• Your class on Google Classroom
• Webwork is where you do your online homework. You can now access Webwork off campus directly.
• I use Moodle to post your grades periodically throughout the semester
• The grade calculator allows you to input your current running total and see what kind of score you need on the inal exam for each kind of letter grade. Click Use Template in the upper right corner to start.
• Handout on definitions of infinite limits
• Here is a list of the topics we have covered. It is updated before each exam.
• Here are the notes to help you read your textbook
  • 2.4. The Product and Quotient Rules
  • 2.5. The Chain Rule
  • 2.6. Implicit Differentiation
  • 2.7. Related Rates
  • 3.1. Maximum and Minimum Values<
  • 3.2. The Mean Value Theorem
  • 3.3. Derivatives and the Shapes of Graphs
  • 3.5. Optimization Problems
  • 3.7. Antiderivatives
  • 4.1. Areas and Distances
  • 4.2. The Definite Integral
  • 4.3. Evaluating Definite Integrals
  • 4.4. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Homework:

Assigned	Due	Read	Exercises
2/10		1.5, 1.6	No homework yet
2/14	2/21	1.6	Webwork: HW1 Offline: 1.5.22, 34, 38, 51
2/21	2/28	2.1, 2	Webwork: HW2 Offline: 1.6.45, 52, 58, and state the informal and formal definitions of the following limits: limx → a- f(x) = ∞ limx → -∞ f(x) = L limx → ∞ f(x) = -∞
2/28	3/6	2.2, 3	Webwork: HW3 Offline: 2.1.8, 14, 20, 46
3/6	3/13	2.3	Webwork: HW4 Offline: 2.2.16, 28, 32, 46
3/13		2.4, 5	Homework holiday. Review for the upcoming exam.
4/3	4/10	2.6, 7 3.1	Webwork: HW5 Offline: 2.3.36, 62; 2.4.46; 2.5.62
4/10	4/17	3.1, 2	Webwork: HW6 Offline: 2.5.78; 2.6.26, 46; 2.7.42
4/17	4/24	3.2, 3, 5	Webwork: HW7 Offline: 2.6.42 and 3.1.14, 59, 60
4/24		3.5, 7 4.1	Homework holiday. Review for the upcoming exam.
5/1	5/8	3.7 4.1, 4.2	Webwork: HW8 Offline: 3.2.22; 3.3.44; 3.5.30, 32
5/8	5/18	4.2-4	Webwork: HW9 Offline: 4.1.18, 19; 4.2.24; 4.3.50
5/15	5/20	4.4	Webwork: HW10

Exam solutions:

• First hourly exam pdf
• Second hourly exam pdf
• Final exam pdf

Educational links:

• A serious paper on teaching/learning at the university level by Prof. Steven Zucker
• A more light-hearted, but very true guide on how to be on good terms with your professor (who assigns your grade) by Prof. Doug Andrews at Wittenberg University

Math links:

• Our own Problems of the Month are an excellent way to hone your reasoning skills. There is at least one problem each month whose solution requires no knowledge of advanced math, only a creative mind. You can even earn a prize by submitting your solutions.
• Wolfram MathWorld is an interactive math encyclopedia.
• Wolfram Alpha gives you access to many features of Mathematica, an extremely powerful computer algebra program, without paying $$$ and learning Mathematica syntax. It does not only do algebra.
• Desmos is everyone's favorite graphing website.
• The following app on secant lines and tangent lines is a good tool to visualize those lines.
• Here is another app on tangent lines.
• The Riemann sums app on Desmos is a good way to visualize how various kinds of Riemann sums approximate the area under a graph.

Some scholarship opportunities for prospective teachers:

• Knowles Science Teaching Foundation