MCS 121, Calculus I, Section 2
(9:00-9:50 MTuThF in OHS 320)

Syllabus: Here is the syllabus.

Office hours for the rest of the semester:

• 11-2, Thu, 12/14
• 1-2:30, Fri, 12/15
• 12:30-4, Mon, 12/18

Calculus tutoring center: The tutors are available at 6:30-9:30 PM in OHS 329.

Online resources:

• Webwork is where you do your online homework.
  
• I use Moodle to post your grades periodically throughout the semester
• Here is some advice on writing limits

Homework:

Assigned	Due	Read	Exercises
9/8	9/15	1.1-3	Webwork: Do HW0 Offline: 1.1.6, 11, 13, 14, 25
9/15	9/22	1.5, 6 2.1	Webwork: Do HW1 Offline: 1.1.80; 1.2.10; 1.3.6, 28, 52, 64
9/22	9/29	2.1-3	Webwork: Do HW2 Offline: 1.5.22, 24; 1.6.2, 20, 48, 62
9/29	10/6	2.1-3	Webwork: Do HW3 Offline: 1.6.76, 77; 2.1.2, 9
10/6		2.3, 4	Homework holiday. Prepare for the upcoming exam on 10/12.
10/13	10/20	2.3-5	Webwork: Do HW4 Offline: 2.2.2, 4, 16, 24
10/20	10/27	2.3-5	Webwork: Do HW5 Offline: 2.3.10, 34
10/27	11/3	2.4-6	Webwork: Do HW6 Offline: 2.3.40, 54, 59, 60
11/3		2.5-7	Homework holiday. Prepare for the upcoming exam on 11/9.
11/10	11/17	2.6-8	Webwork: Do HW7 Offline: 2.4.18, 33, 42; 2.5.68
11/17	11/27	2.7, 8 3.1	Webwork: Do HW8 Offline: 2.6.59, 74
11/21	12/1	3.1-4	Webwork: Do HW9 Offline: 2.7.50; 2.8.14, 44, 51
12/1	12/8	4.1-3, 7 3.5	Webwork: Do HW10 Offline: 3.1.70, 3.2.60, 3.3.54, 3.4.91
12/8	12/14	4.2 3.5-7, 10	Webwork: Do HW11

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
• Some "inside" (really, common sense) advice on getting good grades on Chegg, a textbook retail company.
  

Math links: The links below lead to sites with encyclopedias of math terms.  You can use them to find definitions, examples, and some theorems.

• planetmath.org
• Wolfram MathWorld
• Wolfram Alpha
  

Some scholarship opportunities for prospective teachers:

• Knowles Science Teaching Foundation