Math 251-13697 Fall
Links
- WeBWorK
--Your user name is your duck ID (e.g., mine is 'rfisette')
and your default password Your student ID number--Change this the first
time you log in.
- Blackboard
-I won't use blackboard much, but I will possibly post
grades and things on there occasionally.
Announcements
- Hello! Welcome to the webpage for your Math 251 course. This
page will be updated with all of the pertinent information and documents
that you will need for the course, so you should keep it bookmarked and
check it regularly. Question about when an assignment is due? Check the
webpage. Lost your syllabus? Check the webpage. Need to find the review
sheet for an exam or quiz? Webpage! Any questions? (If so, check the
webpage.)
Course Documents
Assignments
- Due Tuesday 9/29:
- Read syllabus thoroughly, email
questions
- Read sections 2.1, 2.2, email questions
- Due Wednesday 9/30:
- Read section 2.3, email questions
- WeBWorK assignment ``Intro'' due at noon.
- Take-home
quiz from day 1 due at the beginning of class.
- Due Friday 10/2:
- Read section 2.5, email
questions
- Due Monday 10/5:
- Read section 2.6, email
questions
- WeBWorK assignment ``2.2-2.3'' due at
noon
- Due Tuesday 10/6:
- Read section 2.7, email
questions.
- Due Wednesday 10/7:
- Bring questions from homework due
Friday.
- Be prepared for a Quiz based on sections 2.2-2.3, 2.5,
and the assignment due 10/5, ``2.2-2.3''.
- Due Friday 10/9:
- WeBWorK assignment ``2.5-2.6'' due at
noon.
- Read section 2.8, email questions.
- Due Monday 10/12:
- Read section 3.1 (Derivatives of Polynomial
and Exponential Functions), email
questions.
- Due Tuesday 10/13:
- Read section 3.2 (The Product and Quotient
Rules), email questions.
-
Quiz 3 (take-home Quiz from Friday's
class) due at the beginning of class
- Due Wednesday 10/14:
- WeBWorK assignment ``2.7-2.8'' due at
noon.
- Read Appendix D--Trigonometry.
- Due Friday 10/16:
- Read section 3.3, ``Derivatives of
Trigonometric Functions,'' email questions.
- Due Monday 10/19:
- Read section 3.4, ``The Chain Rule,'' email
questions.
- Bring questions from homework due
Tuesday.
- Due Tuesday 10/20:
- WeBWorK assignment ``3.1-3.2'' due at
noon.
- Derivative presentation day--present derivatives of
worksheet problems to make up for
lost quiz points.
- Due Wednesday 10/21:
- Continued discussion of the chain
rule.
- Be prepared for a Quiz on 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2,
3.3.
- Due Friday 10/23:
- Read section 3.5, ``Implicit
Differentiation,'' email questions.
- Bring questions from
homework ``3.3-3.4,'' due Tuesday. Note: We will not
discuss homework questions on Monday in class!
- Due Monday 10/26:
- Read section 3.6, ``Derivatives of
logarithmic functions,'' email questions.
- Due Tuesday 10/27:
- WeBWorK assignment ``3.3-3.4'' due at
noon.
- Due Wednesday 10/28:
- Be prepared for a Quiz on sections
3.1-3.4.
- Due Friday 10/30:
- Read section 3.9, ``Related Rates,'' email
questions.
- Bring questions from homework due
Monday.
- Due Monday 11/2:
- WeBWorK assignment ``3.5-3.6'' due at
noon.
- Due Tuesday 11/3:
- Read section 3.8, ``Exponential Growth and
Decay,'' email questions.
- Be prepared to present related
rates problems
- Due Wednesday 11/4:
- Bring questions from homework, quizzes,
Quizzes, worksheets, etc to review for exam on Friday.
- Due Friday 11/6:
- Be prepared for in-class midterm exam on
Chapter 2 (Limits and Derivatives) and Chapter 3, sections 3.1-3.6 (up to
logarithmic differentiation). Note that the exam will not include related
rates or exponential growth and decay.
- Take-home part of the
midterm exam due at 1:00pm.
- Due Tuesday 11/10:
- Read section 4.1, ``Maximum and minimum
values,'' email questions.
- Due Wednesday 11/11:
- Read section 4.3, ``How derivatives
affect
the shape of a graph,'' email questions
- Bring questions
from homework due Friday
- Due Friday 11/13:
- NOTE: Worksheet from Tuesday and
(one version of) in-class exam solutions and take-home exam
solutions posted above in Course
Documents
- WeBWorK assignment ``3.8-3.9''
due at noon.
- Be prepared for Derivative
Proficiency Quiz
- Due Tuesday 11/17:
- WeBWorK assignment ``extreme values'' due at
noon.
- Due Wednesday 11/18:
- Read section 4.4, ``Indeterminate Forms
and L'Hospital's Rule,'' email questions.
- Due Friday 11/20:
- Bring questions from homework due
Wednesday
- Due Tuesday 11/24:
- Due Wednesday 11/25:
- Bring linear approximation worksheet to
work on in class.
- Due Tuesday 12/1:
- Deadline to take Derivative Proficiency Quiz
#3
- Due Wednesday 12/2:
- Problems 2, 3, and 5 from linear
approximation worksheet (from 11/24) due in class as a Quiz
- Due Friday 12/4:
- Optimization problems 3, 5, 8 from worksheet,
class on Monday (in Course Documents above) due as a Quiz
- WeBWorK
assignment
``lasthw'' due at noon (postponed to 8pm)
- Deadline to take
Derivative Proficiency
Quiz 4
- Bring review questions to class
- Tuesday 12/8:
- I will have office hours from 1-2 in the
afternoon.
- Review session scheduled for those interested, 7:00pm
in Deady Hall 209. Bring questions.
- Due Wednesday 12/9:
- In-class final exam at 10:15 in our normal
classroom. Not optional. Topic summary/review posted in
Course Documents above
- Due Thursday 12/10:
- Take-home final problems due at noon.
These are optional problems, and the exam can be found in Course Documents
above.