Meetings: MWF 12:10pm-1:00pm, Lectures take place at Social Sci. 1100.

Instructor: Jesús A. De Loera.
email: deloera@math.ucdavis.edu
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/TEACHING/LOWDIVISION/MATH16C/
Phone: (530)-554 97 02

Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:10am-2:00pm or by appointment. My office is 3228 Mathematical Science Building (MSB). The Lead TA for this class is Mr. Edward Kim (he can also help with special questions about grades, etc if I am not available). You can consult any TA at the calculus room (3118 MSB). It is open from 11am to 6pm from March 30th to June 3rd 2010 (may close on university holidays). We will be glad to help you with any questions, problems or concerns you may have!

Text: I will follow Larson and Edwards' Calculus: An Applied Approach . In lecture I will supplement the text with examples and exercises

Grading policy: There are 100 points possible in the course:

• There will be 2 midterms, first on April 26th 2010, the second on May 28th 2010. Each exam will be 30 points. I will drop the lowest of the two for the calculation of the grade. The final exam is comprehensive and counts 45 points. FINAL EXAM date is Tuesday June 8 2010 at 8:00AM Please mark your calendars! and make plans accordingly.

  Use of books, notes, or calculators will not be allowed on any exam.

• Homework will be assigned almost every week for a total of 8 homeworks (or 7 depending on time). Each homework has about 20 problems, and keep in mind tests will be based on the homework . The assigned problems will come from two sources.

  First, from the TEXTBOOK, several problems will be assigned but only the three specially marked problems will be collected for grading , thus you only have to write careful answers for those problems. So you receive up to 5 points from each homework. I will drop the three lowest scores for homeworks (or two lowest if we only do 7 homeworks), for a total of 25 points.

  Second, I will also assign extra bonus problems here using WEBWORK. which is an online electronic system that automatically grades your performance and gives feed back with solutions. For getting started with WEBWORK Not solving these problems does not diminish your grade, but if you correctly complete all of them before the due date, one extra bonus point is assigned to your total. New problems will be posted regularly, up to 10 new a week. These problems will normally be harder than those on the graded homework.

  IMPORTANT: Textbook Homework is due at the end of CLASS on the date it is due. New homework sets will be posted each week on the class web page (see the end of this page).

  In addition of solving homework problems you have a weekly reading assignment to prepare you for the topics to be covered in class. I will indicate the appropiate parts of the text that you need to read for the coming week. You are expected to work hard and to try as many exercises as possible. This is the only way to learn mathematics.

  There are NO make-up exams nor LATE homeworks in this class, instead I am dropping the lowest scores as a compensation of possible problems or emergencies. Graded homeworks will be distributed via the boxes in Wellman hall if you filled the permission card.

• I will assign grades based on the statistics of the points obtained by all students (I compute the mean, standard deviation, etc. and set letter grades according with those numbers). Typically at least 60 points will be necessary to pass this course and at least 90 points will be necessary to receive an A.

• IMPORTANT NOTES: I will handle all grades via the myucdavis grade system. You can see your standing in the class, important statistics on exams, and your final grade there. I will not disclose your grade in any other form.
• The Calculus Room is great place where you can get help on this course. The calculus room is located in the third floor of the mathematical science building, room 3118. The hours of operation are 11:00am to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday. Another wonderful resource is the Learning Skills center . LSC offers workshops and help for you as well. The center is located in 2237 Dutton Hall (more information also available at 2205 Dutton hall).

I am here to help you, I will be very happy to talk to you about any question or idea you had and I hope you will enjoy learning this beautiful topic!

HOMEWORK, SLIDES and ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Homework 1 Due April 5

Homework 2 Due April 14

Lecture about Sec C.4

Lectures about 7.1, 7.2

Homework 3 Due April 23

Lectures about 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

The FIRST MIDTERM will take place April 26th.
It will include all material covered in homeworks 1,2,3.

Here are the the solutions to Midterm 1 . Here is the grading key. Please make sure to check this before asking for a regrade. Write and staple a note with the grading issue to your exam if you want to request a regrade.

Homework 4 Due May 10

Homework 5 Due May 19

Homework 6 Due May 26

SECOND MIDTERM will take place May 28th.
It will cover all material present in homeworks 4,5,6. Here are some review problems we will solve on Wednesday May 26th during class.

The homework 7 will help you review for the final. Due Wednesday June 2nd.

Here are the the solutions to Midterm 2 . A grading key is included, so Please make sure to check this before asking for a regrade. Write and staple a note with the grading issue to your exam if you want to request a regrade.

The last homework 7 will help you review for the final. Due Wednesday June 2nd.

The final was graded. Highest score final: 42/45 (3 students achieved this) Mean value: 21 and the standard dev: 8.5. The solutions and grading key for the final are here .

FINAL GRADES HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED

We collected the final grade, all the homeworks, midterms (dropping the lowest grade), webwork grades. Using all the collected data (EXCEPT webwork because it for was bonus points) we set up the following grade curve:

A+ >=95.01
A >=90.01
A- >=85.01
B+ >=80.01
B >=75.01
B->=69.01
C+ >=65.01 <---Roughly the mean
C >=59.9
C- >=54.5
D+ >=50.1

Then for those students that did bonus webwork they were awarded as many points as they successfully completed assignments.