Home page for Math 153, fall 2009


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| Syllabus & textbook homework problems
for all sections of 151 & 153

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Things to do
Do the reading and the problems in the syllabus.

Today (Monday, 12/21/2009) I submitted course grades to the Registrar's computer system. The submission was delayed because I needed to wait for some information. Students should be able to read their grades through that system soon. Information about grading the final exam and reporting course grades is here.
A number of students put much time and effort into this course. I thank them for this.

Other class material

Title
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What is it?Handed out
or posted
The whole course, in just a few pages I wrote this summary for a calc 1 class at Rutgers a few years ago. Maybe it can help some people, but you still need to practice. 12/10/2009
Review material for the final exam
(Information was added on Monday morning, December 14.)
12/8/2009
Answers to the second exam Here are detailed answers to the second exam. Please tell me any comments or corrections. Copies of the answers were distributed with graded exams in lecture on Tuesday, November 24.
Here is a discussion of the grades and grading. See here for specific information about changes in the point values of problems 7 and 8.
11/24/2009
The second exam Here is a version of the second exam, in a somewhat more compact format. Graded exams were returned in lecture on Tuesday, December 24.11/24/2009
The tenth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the third problem on Wednesday, November 18. 11/12/2009
Review material for the second exam 11/9/2009
The ninth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the fourth problem on Wednesday, November 11. 11/6/2009
The eighth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the second problem on Wednesday, November 4. 10/30/2009
The seventh workshop Please hand in a writeup of the fourth problem on Wednesday, October 28. Pictures are likely to be useful, but please be sure they are correctly and clearly labeled. 10/23/2009
The sixth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the third problem on Wednesday, October 21. This problem asks you to find what is called the bounding box of the ellipse.
The geometric situation for the first problem, with the complicated formulas involving arcsin and arctan, is shown to the right along with the two parallel tangent lines for the special value of a which is requested in the problem. If you worked on this problem and found it annoying, this picture might help.
10/2/2009
Answers to the first exam Here are detailed answers to version A of the first exam with shorter answers for other versions. Please tell me any comments or corrections. Copies of the answers will be returned with graded exams in lecture on Tuesday, October 13.
Ms. O'Sullivan has kindly supplied a correction ($10 should be $12 in the solution to problem 6) and this correction has been made in the version posted. I thank her.
Here is a discussion of the grades and grading.
10/13/2009
The first exam Here is a version of the first exam, in a somewhat more compact format. Graded exams will be returned in lecture on Tuesday, October 13.10/13/2009
The fifth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the first problem on Wednesday, October 7.
10/2/2009
The writeups for the composition problem (problem 2 of workshop 3) showed that many people had difficulties with domain and range of composition. This discussion of composition and domains and ranges for two familiar functions (sine and ln) may help these people. 10/2/2009
Review material for the first exam 9/29/2009
The fourth workshop Please hand in a writeup of the second problem on Wednesday, September 30.
Writeups are graded both for exposition and mathematical content
9/24/2009
The third workshop Please hand in a writeup of the second problem on Wednesday, September 23.
Writeups are graded both for mathematical content and exposition.
9/17/2009
The second workshop Please hand in a writeup of the third problem on Wednesday, September 16.
Writeups are graded both for mathematical content and exposition.
A solution and a discussion of the writeup requested for the first workshop problem is now available here and we urge students to read this together with their returned papers and learn more about what is wanted.
9/9/2009
The first workshop Please hand in a writeup of the second problem on Wednesday, September 9.
Remember, writeups will be graded both for mathematical content and exposition. Please use complete sentences, label your diagrams, and explain your computations. More is in your textbook, and here.
9/2/2009
The diagnostic exam The diagnostic exam which was given at the first lecture. Here are correct (I hope!) answers to this exam, and here is a discussion about the grading if you are curious. 9/2/2009
Information sheet Information sheet handed out at the first lecture. 8/27/2009
I've taught Math 151 (same material as this course) a large number of times before. I most recently taught Math 151 (with the same syllabus and standards as this course) in fall 2007. A great deal of material (including exams with solutions, review material, and a course diary) is available here. I'll probably copy lots of stuff from that semester.

There is also material available from the fall 2006 semester here but please realize that a different textbook was used, so course content may not be identical.


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