Math 135, Sections 61-63: Calculus I

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kristen Hendricks
Office: Hill Center 515
Office Hours: M 3-4 in Hill 515, W 6-7 in the College Ave Student Center Atrium
E-Mail: kristen. hendricks at rutgers .edu
Recitation Instructor: Yevgeniy Milman
Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30 PM in Scott Hall 121, Tuesday 7-7:30 PM in HH-A6
E-Mail: yevgeniy. milman at rutgers .edu
This is a coordinated course. Most course policies can be found in the department course pages for this course, linked below. All of the information below is also duplicated on Canvas.

Location and Time

MW 7:40-9:00 p.m. in Murray Hall 213. Sections meet before and after Monday’s lecture in Scott Hall; see the registrar listing for your location and time.

Content

This is a standard first course in calculus. We will review precalculus, discuss limits and derivatives, understand how to solve extreme value and optimization problems, and finally discuss integration and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Textbook

Calculus: Special Edition: Chapters 1-5, 7th edition, Smith, Strauss, and Toda. Kendall Hunt, 2018. (ISBN: 978-1524971359)

Prerequisites

Placement into calculus, or completion of Math 112 or Math 115, or equivalent.

Homework

Homework will use the MathXL system. Typically, assignments that cover the material of a particular week will become available on Monday morning (before the two lectures on the material) and be due at 4:15 p.m. the following Monday, shortly before recitation sections meet. The MathXL ID for these section is XL3D-S1CK-3022-3VK2. Once you have a MathXL account, you can use your id number to join the course. Your lowest two homework scores will be dropped in computing your grade.

The Ask My Professor feature on MathXL is presently enabled. I will answer questions using it during Monday’s office hour and up until 4:15 (although students actually in my office will have priority). Other questions sent using this feature will typically be answered the evening of the day they are received.

There is also a list of homework exercises from the textbook in the department course materials. These are not to be turned in, but rather they are intended to guide your studying; if you can do all the problems on the list, you are probably prepared for the exams.

Quizzes

Most weeks there will be a quiz on the material of the previous week at the end of Monday’s recitation section (the exceptions are the weeks we have midterms). There will be eleven quizzes in total. There will not be any make-up quizzes, but your lowest quiz score will be dropped in computing your final grade.

Exams

There will be two in-class midterms on Wednesday, October 9 and Wednesday, November 20. There will also be a final exam Monday, December 16, 4:00-7:00 p.m. For the first midterm, there is a make-up exam available for students observing Yom Kippur. There will typically not be make-up exams for other reasons except in extreme and documented circumstances.

Grading

Grades will be computed as follows:

Final letter grades will be computed as described here.

Schedule

We will follow the official schedule of lectures in the second link above quite closely.