Math 2200  –  Spring, 2004

First-Semester Calculus: The Differential Calculus – The Study of Optimization

 

Instructor:  Dr. Jerome Jungster

Meeting Times:  Tuesday and Thursday

 

Hour

Call Number

Room

Final Exam

09:30 – 10:45

00-043

Boyd 304

Thurs May 6; 8–11 am

11:00 – 12:15

00-049

Boyd 303

Tues. May 4; 12–3 pm

 

Text: Calculus - Early Transcendentals Version (6th ed.) by Edwards & Penney.

Recommended Collateral Text: Calculus by Elliot C. Gootman, Barrons Educational Series, 1997.

Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-4:15 pm, Thursday 1:00-1:45 & 3:30-4:30 pm, in Boyd 506.

Phone: 542-2642

e-Mail: jerome@math.uga.edu

 

Attendance Policy:

Attendance is required. Roll will be taken each day. Commencing with roll taken on Thursday, January 15, A fifth unexcused absence will result in your automatic withdrawal from this course. If this occurs prior to the mid-semester Add-Drop deadline, you will then automatically receive a "W"; if after, you will receive a "W" or "WF", consistent with your academic performance to that point in time.

 

NOTE WELL: I will deviate liberally and daily (in order to make calculus more intuitive for you) from the presentation and approach in the textbook. In fact, I will teach you some things that, to my knowledge, do not appear in any book. On the exams, you are responsible for everything demanded in the homeworks (problems taken from the text) as well as everything presented in class lectures. Missing class is a mistake.

 

Grading:

(1) 3 one-hour tests, each contributing 17% towards your final grade;

(2) Final Exam (3 hours allotted): 34% of final grade.

(3) In-Class Work (including classroom participation and quizzes): 15% towards final grade.

 

Your Final Exam grade may be used to replace your lowest grade on any of the hour tests.

 

Exam

Tentative Date

I

Thursday, 02/12

II

Thursday, 03/18

III

Tuesday, 04/13

 

 

Course Focus:

The key principle in my approach to learning calculus is to understand it in a visual, geometric way, as presented in the lectures. This approach flows again and again from Perspective to Concept to Computational Skill to Application. More fully,

 

a) We gain Perspective from the geometrical approach – this serves as our motivation;

b) We formalize this perspective into the Concepts of calculus – this provides us a compass;

c) We further evolve the concepts into concrete Computational Skills. These are special skills, specific to calculus, and differ from the  math skills that you learned before calculus – these skills become our working tools.

d) Finally, we will learn the Applications of these concepts (which involves intensive use of the computational skills) to "real world" problems – this is where we learn to use our skills to get results.

 

At times, I will teach you specific Methods for working the applications - the step-by-step procedures for solving applications problems successfully. Usually, these will be based on handouts given in class.

 

Benefits:

- Gaining a solid grasp of mathematics essential for business, physical sciences, and life sciences majors

- Understanding one of the profound achievements in human thinking, the Calculus.

 

Key Dates:

Friday, 03/05 – Midpoint Course Withdrawal Deadline;

03/06-03/13 – Spring Break;

Tuesday, 04/27 – Last Day of Class (for Tues-Thurs courses).

 

Ground Rules:

You are expected to conduct yourself in a positive and courteous manner throughout the semester – one that exhibits consideration and respect for your fellow students, instructor, the class as a whole, and the educational process of the University. Below are some of the more commonly-observed rude and disrespectful behaviors in the University, which will not be tolerated in my classroom:

 

(1)   Having a newspaper or other reading material unrelated to the course in open view – let alone reading a newspaper while class is in progress;

(2)   Having a powered-on cell phone in class – check your cell phone at the door and shut it off. In the unlikely circumstance that your cell phone does stay on and you receive a phone call in the middle of class, you will immediately shut off the phone – without allowing it to ring further and without checking to see the calling party's number or identity;

(3)   Leaving class before class is dismissed. (If you need to leave early, please notify me before class begins.);

(4)   Announcing your late arrival, should you be late, by making more than the least necessary noise. If you come late – something that happens to all of us – please take your notebook out of your pack before you enter the classroom and find a seat as quietly as possible. If late, have the courtesy to make your arrival inconspicuous;

(5)   Holding side conversations with a neighboring student. It is okay, of course, to ask a neighbor for assistance if you cannot make out something written on the board or if you need to borrow a pen, but that is far different from a continuing or resuming chat.

 

Should you engage in the any of the above, you will be asked to leave class at once. You will not receive a warning. This syllabus sheet is your warning. Note further: If you leave class early or are ejected, you will be considered absent for that class. Please make a note of all these things and place it in your conscious mental agenda.