| Section: |
111-05 (21408)
8:00 am - 8:50 am MWF MAYBANK HALL 112,
8:00 am - 9:15 am T MAYBANK HALL 112 (You can read about my other section here.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instructor: |
Dr. Kunkle, 327 RS Small,
k u n k l e t _at_ c o f c _dot_ e d u,
953-5921 (office), 766-0943 (home). RS Small is item 23 on the campus map. It's a big pink building across from Maybank Hall on Cougar Mall.
What grade do I need on the final to get a ??? in this course? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instructor's Office Hours: |
Here are my remaining office hours this semester. If you'd like to see me but can't make these times, please ask for an appointment. As always, you're welcome to use my home number if you have a question. Mon Apr 23, 1:30-2:30 Tue Apr 24, 9-12, 1:30-3 Wed Apr 25, 10:30-12, 2-4 Thu Apr 26, 9-12, 2-4 Fri Apr 27, 9-12, 2-4
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| Math Lab Hours and Tutors: | The Math Lab offers free help to students taking math courses at CofC. Math Lab's webpage. Math Lab's hours. A list of tutors available for private tutorings (fees vary). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives, Expected Outcomes: | MATH 111 is intended to prepare students for MATH 120 Introductory Calculus. Precalculus is the study of functions, including polynomial, rational, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. For more details, compare the list of sections below with our text's table of contents. Students are expected to display a thorough understanding of the techniques of these topics and, to some extent, the theory behind them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Text: |
Essentials of Precalculus, with calculus previews Dennis Zill and Jacqueline Dewar, 5th ed.
By the first day of class, it will be too late to buy a book online and wait for it to arrive. Consider purchasing a book that's bundled with a WebAssign access code. See WebAssign. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WebAssign: |
WebAssign is an online homework system that gives immediate
feedback and extra help on many of the problems in our text.
To set up your account, go to http://www.webassign.net and click on "I have a class key."
The key for MATH 111-04 is cofc 3312 8271 The key for MATH 111-05 is cofc 7306 5954 You can use WebAssign for free until 14 days after the first day of class. You'll need to purchase an access code to use WebAssign after the 14 days. An initial set of WebAssignments to be completed during the free 14 days will count as as our first quiz. Later WebAssign problem sets will be available for those students who might find WA useful. These optional problem sets will not be used in the calculation of your grades. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exams and Grades: |
We'll have five (5) 50-minute midterm exams, a 3-hour final exam,
and weekly one-question quizzes.
See Schedule below for dates.
All exams and quizes will be closed book: no notes, books, etc.
Calculators will be excluded from most (perhaps all) exam questions.
Notes stored in your calculator in the form of programs, equations,
etc., are expressly forbidden.
Although basic ideas we learn in this course can appear on several exams or quizzes, each weekly quiz will be based primarily on material covered since the time of the previous exam or quiz, and each midterm exam will be based primarily on material covered since the previous midterm. Our final exam in this course will be cumulative. Unless I specifically tell you otherwise, you should assume that any topic of this course could appear on the final. Each of the five (5) midterm exams is worth 100 points, the final exam is worth 200 points, and the weekly in-class quizzes are worth 50 points altogether. I'll assign letter grades as follows:
I won't drop any exams, but if you do better on the final exam than on your worst midterm exam, I'll raise that (one) midterm exam score by averaging it with your final exam (percentage) score. Then, at the end of the semester, I'll calculate your grade two ways--based on the percent you earned of the 700 possible exam points, and again based on the percent you earned of the 750 possible exam and quiz points--and give you whichever letter grade comes out higher. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance Policy: |
Good attendance is a necessary first step towards a good grade.
I strongly recommend that you attend class every day.
If you're absent on a non-exam day, I'll assume that you have a good reason for missing and will not require an excuse. Read the text and try the homework for the day you miss and then bring questions to me in my office. See Make-up Policy for absences on exam days. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make-up Policy: | If you must miss an exam, I expect you to contact me (using all the numbers above) and the Associate Dean of Students (953-3390), as soon as possible. Do not delay. I can allow you a make-up exam only if I determine that your absence at exam time (and every reasonable time until the make-up) is excusable. If you are not sick enough to see a doctor on the day of the exam, then you are not sick enough to miss the exam. An unexcused exam will be given the grade zero, probably causing you to fail the course. There are no makeups for quizzes, but I'll drop your two (2) lowest quiz scores before computing your quiz average. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to get your best grade: |
Attend every class, practice lots of homework, and read the book!
Don't just do the homework until you get the right answer, but practice homework problems until you can do them reliably on an exam. After each class, do as many of the assigned problems as possible. Time permitting, there will be a short time to ask questions about these at the beginning of the next class. Begin extra studying for the tests at least a week in advance. Identify the different types of problems in the homework and the steps you must follow to solve each type. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Calculators: | A calculator is of limited use in learning the material in this class, so no specific model is required for this course. Calculators will be excluded from most exam and quiz questions, and on the others, you may use only a freshly reset calculator. (Click here to read how to reset a TI-83 or 84.) You may not use a TI-89 or any machine with symbolic capabilities on any part of an exam or quiz. You may not share a calculator with another student on any exam or quiz. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Syllabus On Line: | If it becomes necessary for me to change any part of this syllabus, you'll always find its most current version at http://kunklet.people.cofc.edu/ . Look for the last change date at the top of this document, and the description of changes at the bottom. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Old Exams: |
Here are the midterm exams from my MATH 111, Spring 2009, when I last taught
this class.
That semester I gave 4 75-minute midterm exams, as opposed to the 5 50-minute exams you'll have. Also, since course content and the order of topics
can change from one semester to the next,
these exams might not always cover the material you should be studying
for your exams.
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| Learning Disabled Students: | If you have a learning disability which will effect your performance in this class, you should contact Disability Services (953-1431) and talk to me in private. I can make no special testing allowances without documentation from Disability Services. Appointments with Disability Services for alternate testing must be made by the student at least three days in advance of the test date. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assigned Problems: |
"5-25" means the odd numbered
problems between 5 and 25, inclusive. "7-19 (all)" means all problems
between 7 and 19, inclusive.
* indicates a challenging but worthwhile problem.
** indicates a very challenging problem for your enjoyment only.
I won't put a ** problem on an exam,
and I probably won't have time to do one in class.
"1.rev" refers to the review exercises
at the end of Chapter 1.
[17] means to do problem 17 if time allows us to cover this topic in class. |
| 1.1: | 1-65. more | 1.2: | 1-45, 51-55. more | 1.3 | 1,3,17-37, 39*, 43-53, 57. |
| 1.4: | 1-71, 73**, 76*. | 1.5: | 1-9, 11*, 13-31, 33*, 37, 39. | 1.rev: | 1-17, 21-39, 41-44 (all), 45-69. |
| 2.1: | 1-55. more | 2.2: | 1-21, 33-41. more | 2.3: | 1-51. |
| 2.4: | 1-43, 47-51. more | 2.5: | 1, 3, 7-11, 17-33, 37-45, 49, 51, 54**. | 2.6: | 1-33, 35*, 39**, 41-51. more |
| 2.7: | 1-37, 43-51. more | 2.8: | 1-23, 25*, 27-39, 47. Note instructions for 27-48 on page 112. | 2.9: | 1-25 (all parts), 27-31. more |
| 2.rev: | 1-17, 21-39, 43, 35, 36, 51-55, 58 (Hint: use answer to 53), 63, 65. | 3.1: | 1-11, 13-18 (all), 23-43, 46, 47-51, 55, 57**. more | 3.2: | 1-11, 15, 23-37, 39*, 41*, 43*. more |
| 3.3: | 1, 7-39, 40. | 3.4: | 1-19, 25-37, 41, 43, 50. more | 3.5: | 3-33, 37-43. more |
| 3.rev: | 1-21, 25-37, 43, 45, 55, 59-69 (all). | 4.1: | 1-29, 33, 37-40 (all), 53-61. | 4.2: | 1-7, 9*, 11-37, 47-54 (all), 59*, 61. more |
| 4.3: | 1-41, 45, 47. more. graph paper, and more graph paper. | 4.4: | 1, 2, 3-13, 19-43. | 4.5: | 9-39, [41-53], 55. |
| 4.6: | 1-43, 45*, 51, 53. more | 4.7: | 1-31, 49-53. more | 4.9: | 1-7, 11-21, 25-39. more |
| 4.10: | 1-35, 39, 41, 43*. more | 4.rev: | 1-13, 17-35, 41-57, 61-67, 73, 75, 79. | 5.1: | 1-15, 119-23, 39-51. more |
| 5.2: | 1-31, 35-51, 52, 54, 55-77. more | 5.3: | 1-5, 9, 13-19, [21-25]. more | 5.rev: | 1-15, 19-49, 53, 55-60 (all), 63-69. |
| Schedule: | ||||
| M 1/9: 1.1 | T 1/10: 1.2 | W 1/11: 1.3 | F 1/13: 1.4 | |
| M 1/16: holiday | T 1/17:Quiz 1 1.4, 1.5 | W 1/18: 1.5 | F 1/20: 1.5, 2.1 | |
| M 1/23: 2.1, 2.2 Rat'l power functions, shift and scale, reflect. | T 1/24: Quiz 2 2.2 | W 1/25: 2.3 | F 1/27: Q&A | |
| M 1/30: Exam 1 | T 1/31: 2.4 parabolas | W 2/1: 2.4 | F 2/3: 2.5 | |
| M 2/6: 2.6 | T 2/7: Quiz 3 2.7 | W 2/8: 2.7, 2.8 | F 2/10: 2.8 | |
| M 2/13: 2.9 | T 2/14: Quiz 4 2.9 | W 2/15: Q&A | F 2/17: Exam 2 | |
| M 2/20: 3.1 monomials | T 2/21: Quiz 5 3.1 | W 2/22: 3.2 | F 2/24: 3.3, Complex Arithmetic | |
| M 2/27: 3.3, 3.4 | T 2/28: Quiz 6 3.4 | W 2/29: 3.5 | F 3/2: 3.5, Polynomial example | |
| M 3/5: holiday | T 3/6: holiday | W 3/7: holiday | F 3/9: holiday | |
| M 3/12: 5.1 exp'l functions | T 3/13: Quiz 7 5.2 | W 3/14: Q&A | F 3/16: Exam 3 | |
| Mar 19 is the last day to withdraw with a grade of W. | ||||
| M 3/19: 5.2 | T 3/20: Quiz 8 5.3 | W 3/21: 5.3 | F 3/23: 4.1, 4.2 | |
| M 3/26: 4.2 | T 3/27: Quiz 9 4.3 | W 3/28: Q&A | F 3/30: Exam 4 | |
| M 4/2: 4.3, 4.4 | T 4/3: Quiz 10 4.4 | W 4/4: 4.5 | F 4/6: 4.5, 4.6 | |
| M 4/9: 4.6 | T 4/10: Quiz 11 4.7 | W 4/11: 4.7 | F 4/13: Q&A | |
| M 4/16: Exam 5 | T 4/17: 4.9 | W 4/18: 4.10 | F 4/20: 4.10 | |
| M 4/23: Q&A | Saturday 4/28: Final exam. 12-3 pm 103 RS Small | |||
Jan 20: added links for math lab and tutors info. |
Jan 31: added links to handouts in sections 2.2, 2.4, 3.3. |
Feb 17: added link to handout in 3.1 |
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Mar 2: Added example to schedule. |
Mar 26: added link to old final. |
Apr 12: added location of final. |
Apr 16: added link to final review problems |
Apr 18: added "What grade do I need?" |
Apr 23: posted office hours during finals. |
Apr 24: modified today's office hours. |