Math 251-15852 Fall
2009
Links
- WeBWorK
--Your user name is your duck ID (e.g., mine is 'rfisette')
and your default password is 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 3:00pm.
- Take-home
quiz from day 1 due at the beginning of class.
- Due Thursday 10/1:
- 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--we
will not discuss this homework in class on Thursday!
- Be prepared
for a Quiz based on sections 2.2-2.3, 2.5, and the assignment due
10/5.
- Due Thursday 10/8:
- Read section 2.8, email
questions.
- Due Friday 10/9:
- WeBWorK assignment ``2.5-2.6'' due at
noon.
- Due Monday 10/12:
- Read section 3.1, email
questions.
- Due Tuesday 10/13:
- Read section 3.2, email
questions.
- Quiz 3 (take-home
quiz from class on Thursday) due at the beginning of class.
- Bring
questions from homework due Wednesday.
- Due Wednesday 10/14:
- WeBWorK assignment ``2.7-2.8'' due at
noon.
- Read Appendix D--Trigonometry
- Due Thursday 10/15:
- Read section 3.3, ``Derivatives of
Trigonometric Functions,'' email questions
- Due Monday 10/19:
- Read section 3.4, 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 Thursday 10/22:
- Read section 3.5, ``Implicit
Differentiation.''
- Bring questions from homework ``3.3-3.4,'' due
Tuesday. Note: We will not discuss homework questions in
class on Monday!
- 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 Thursday 10/29:
- Read section 3.9, ``Related Rates,'' email
questions.
- Bring questions on 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.''
- Be prepared to present related rates
problems
- Due Wednesday 11/4:
- Bring questions from homework, quizzes,
Quizzes, etc. for midterm exam review.
- Due Thursday 11/5:
- 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.
- Due Friday 11/6:
- 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 Thursday 11/12:
- Due Friday 11/13:
- NOTE: In-class exam solutions (one
version) and take-home exam solutions and worksheet from Tuesday's class
posted in Course
Documents above
- WeBWorK assignment ``3.8-3.9'' due at
noon
- 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 Thursday 11/19:
- 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 Thursday 12/3:
- Problems 3, 5, 8 from Optimization worksheet
(Monday's class) due in class as a Quiz
- Due Friday 12/4:
- WeBWorK assignment ``lasthw'' due at
noon. (postponed to 8pm)
- Deadline to take Derivative Proficiency
Quiz 4
Sunday 12/6:- Review session for those interested, 7:00pm in
Deady Hall 209. Bring questions.
- Due Monday 12/7:
- Final exam at 3:15 in our normal classroom. I
will have office hours from 1-2 in the afternoon. Topic
summary/review posted in Course Documents above.
- Due Thursday 12/10:
- Take-home final problems due at noon.
These problems are an optional part of the final exam, and can be found in
Course Documents above.