Announcements
Course evaluations received in March! My favourite quotes this year:
Professor Nevins loves Calculus more than Kanye loves himself.
I hate Calculus with a passion but the teacher is really good.
Thank you all for the excellent feedback. Common themes included: slow down, more examples, more training for the TAs in the DGDs, and solve the glitches in MapleTA.
I'm working on it!
Your final exams have been graded and the final marks calculated.
Reminder on how final marks are calculated: your total homework grade (on 15) + your DGD quiz grade (on 5) + your first midterm mark (on 15) + your second midterm mark (on 15) + your final exam mark (on 50) = your final term mark (on 100). Exceptions: if your final exam mark is less than 40% (so less than 20 out of 50) then your final term mark is a failure, regardless of the marks earned on midterms or homework. Also, if your % mark on the final is higher than on a midterm, then the weight of that midterm is transferred to the final. Homework and quiz marks remain as they are.
General advice: if your final exam grade is significantly lower than what you thought you had earned, you should go see your exam; this is true for any course in University. My Exam-viewing office hours at KED 305D (first come, first served):
- Monday, January 9th from 11am to noon
- Monday, January 9th from 3 to 4 pm
Congratulations! As a whole, this class did quite well, and many of you wrote an excellent final exam. I wish you the best of success in your continued studies.
If you earned an F in MAT1320, then you will need to drop MAT1322 for the winter term and register for MAT1320 instead. The best advice: attend the lectures, do problems regularly, and earn yourself a mark that is more representative of your abilities. If your difficulties lie in your mathematical background, then it is time to face that (with the help of the drop-in center, various web resources, or a private tutor, for example). Speak also to your academic advisor to understand the dire consequences if you permit yourself to fail MAT1320 a second time.
Best wishes for an excellent 2017!
Old announcements:
All MapleTA homeworks, including a new one about the last bit of new material, are posted for unlimited practice at our usual site.. They don't have 'How Did I Do?' (a "feature" of MapleTA) but you could do just one or two problems, click 'submit' and look at the solutions, and then get a fresh new assignment to do the next problems.
Here are some questions and answers. Annotated solutions to the midterm and quizzes are available on Blackboard Learn. You can pick up graded work in office hours. Here is some information and links for those needing to work on their mathematical background.
Change to syllabus: Originally, the MapleTA homework and the DGD quizzes were each worth 10% of your final grade. This has now been changed to: Maple TA homework is worth 15% of your final grade, and the DGD quizzes are worth 5% of your final grade. We have had two recorded quizzes so far and will continue with regular paper quizzes for the rest of the term rather than Echo360.
The Math Drop-in center is open until the end of math exams.
Course info
- Prof Monica Nevins
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- 585 King Edward Ave, Office KED 305D
- Email: mnevins at uottawa.ca
- The syllabus, or course outline, which includes course policies, important dates, the method used to compute your final grade, and details about the course.
- MapleTA. This homework grading online software, with our custom-built database of problems, offers you immediate feedback on the progress of your learning, detailed solutions to problems, and will be used for the weekly graded assignments. Your licence, which you must purchase for $25+tax from the MapleSoft website, with promo code UOTTAWA2016FA is valid for both MAT1320 and MAT1322 and is good for one year. Your email address on Maple TA must be your uottawa email address to allow your grades to be transferred to Blackboard. Here is the in-house guide to using this software, with updated answers to frequently asked questions, including particularly some problems with the MapleTA equation editor, and alternate instructions for purchasing the software using the promo code UOTTAWA2016FA. You won't need to install anything and it works with most browsers. The instructor's name that appears is Benoit Dionne (a prof of MAT1720) but it is also our MapleTA class. To see the full worked-out solution in MapleTA, here is how to find them.
- Echo360=Lecture Tools. This is free software you access on your mobile device during the DGDs to complete the weekly quizzes. Here is more information, including instructions on how to set up your account once you have received the invitation email. If you haven't received the email, try loggin on to https://echo360.org.uk/ with your @uottawa.ca email address (and use "forgot password" if necessary) to see if you already have an account.
- Your grades, my lecture notes and solutions to problems or tests will appear on Blackboard Learn.
- Your textbook is also for sale at Agora books. You will use this textbook for 3 classes: MAT1320, 1322 and 2322.
- My office hours for the term will be as follows (except midterm weeks):
- Wednesdays, after class, near MNT 202, and then in my office from 11-12. I answer quick questions in the classroom then answer longer questions outside. When it is down to \(\leq 2\) people, we walk over to my office (KED 305D). Therefore these times are approximate.
- Thursdays, from 2-3, in KED 305D.
Calendar, with exercises
Section numbers and page numbers refer to James Stewart, Calculus with Early Transcendentals, 8th edition. (The 7th edition is extremely similar and if you can find a copy, then you may use it without difficulty this year.)
The odd-numbered problems have answers at the back of the book; a subset of these problems will be taken up in the DGD that week. The 8th edition additionally has full solutions to the Concept Check Problems in the Review Section of each chapter.
| Date | Topic and reading | Exercises to do -- 8th edition of the textbook (Or click this link for exercises from the 7th edition) | Remarks |
| Wed, Sep 7 | Introduction to the course What everyone needs to know about functions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 |
page xxvi onwards: Diagnostic tests on Algebra, Functions and Trigonometry 1.1 p19 # 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 23, 25, 31, 33, 35, 37, 45, 47, 49 1.2 p33 # 1, 3, 9, 15 1.3 p42 # 3, 29, 31, 33, 35, 41, 43, 45, 51, 57 |
Your first DGD is Friday, September 16th. My office hours this week are Thursday and Friday from 9:00am to 10:00am; feel free to drop in. Once you have purchased MapleTA, here is the link to log on for your first assignment "Intro to MapleTA". See announcements for important instructions. |
| Mon, Sep 12 | More functions Trigonometry 1.4, 1.5, Appendix D 7th ed: 1.5, 1.6, Appendix D |
1.4 p53 # 1, 3, 17, 19, 21, 23 1.5 p66 # 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 29, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 51, 53, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71 App D pA32 # 1, 3, 7, 11, 23, 27, 29, 31, 49, 51, 65, 69 |
Test yourself: Chapter 1 Review (p 68) Concept Check: # 3, 6, 8, 12, 13 True-False quiz: # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 |
| Wed, Sep 14 | Limit of a function 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 | 2.1 p82 # 3, 5 2.2 p92 # 5, 7, 11, 23, 31, 33, 41 2.3 p102 # 1, 11, 13, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 31, 41 | Office hours this week: see course info |
| Mon, Sep 19 | Continuity 2.5, 2.6 | 2.5 p124 # 17, 19, 21, 35, 37, 39, 45 2.6 p137 # 3, 7, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31, 33, 41, 43, 49 | In class, we didn't have time to talk much about \(\lim_{x\to \infty}f(x)\), but this is of course an important topic to review. There are some examples worked out in my course notes (on Blackboard) and doing the suggested exercises shows you the kind of problems we expect you to be able to solve. Come to office hours with your questions; and the TA will be happy to work out exercises in the DGD. |
| Wed, Sep 21 | Derivatives 2.7, 2.8 | 2.7 p148 # 5, 7, 13, 15, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43 2.8 p160 # 3, 13, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47, 49, 51 | Test yourself: Chapter 2 Review (p 165) Concept Check: #2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 (7th ed: 2,5,6,7,9,10,11,15) True-False Quiz: #1-7, 10-12, 15-17, 23 (7th ed: 1-5, 8-10, 13-15, 21) |
| Mon, Sep 26 | Basic derivatives 3.1, 3.2 | 3.1 p180 # 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 65 3.2 p188 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 41, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63 | |
| Wed, Sep 28 | Less basic derivatives 3.3, 3.4 | 3.3 p196 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 51, 53 3.4 p204 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 59, 61, 63, 69, 71, 75, 79 | Chapter 3 Review (p266) in preparation for midterm Concept Check: #1,2,3 True-False Quiz: #1-6, 9-15 |
| Mon, Oct 3 | More interesting derivatives 3.5, 3.6 | 3.5 p215 # 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 27, 29, 31, 37, 43, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 71, 75, 77 3.6 p223 # 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51 | |
| Wed, Oct 5 | Midterm #1 | Covers all material until the end of Section 3.4. | |
| Mon, Oct 10 | Thanksgiving | No classes. | |
| Wed, Oct 12 | Using derivatives to approximate 3.9, 3.10 | 3.9 p249 # 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41 3.10 p256 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, 25, 31 | Chapter 3 Review (p266) -- the rest Concept Check: #4,5,6,7 True-False Quiz: #7, 8 |
| Mon, Oct 17 | Antiderivatives 4.9 | 4.9 p355 # 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 45, 47, 51, 59, 61, 63, 65 | |
| Wed, Oct 19 | Integrals 5.1, 5.2 | 5.1 p375 # 3, 5, 13, 15 5.2 p388 # 5, 7, 11, 17, 19, 21, 25, 33, 35, 37, 39, 43, 49 | |
| Mon, Oct 24 | Study break | No classes. | |
| Wed, Oct 26 | Study break | No classes. | |
| Mon, Oct 31 | The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 5.3, 5.4 | 5.3 p399 # 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 43, 59, 61, 63 5.4 p408 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 53, 57, 59, 61, 63 | |
| Wed, Nov 2 | Techniques of integration: substitution 5.5 | 5.5 p418 # 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 79 | Chapter 5 Review (p 421) Concept check: all True-false: all Starting this week, DGD4 (with Dina, currently in MCD 121) is relocated to MRN 021. |
| Mon, Nov 7 | Techniques of integration: by parts, trig 7.1, 7.2 | 7.1 p476 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 23, 27, 33, 37, 39, 41, 51, 53 7.2 p484 # 1, 3, 7, 11, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 41, 43, 47 (depending on how much we cover in class) | |
| Wed, Nov 9 | Techniques of integration: more trig 7.2, 7.3 | 7.2 (rest of list above) 7.3 p491 # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 25, 27 | |
| Mon, Nov 14 | Techniques of integration: partial fractions 7.4, 7.5 | 7.4 p501 # 7, 9, 11, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 39, 41, 43, 47 7.5 p507 # 1 -- 81 (do as many of the odd-numbered questions as you can (but not # 53)) | |
| Wed, Nov 16 | Midterm #2 | Covers material since Midterm #1 up to 7.3 | Friday, November 18, is the last date for withdrawal from a course. Talk to your prof in any course in which you are not earning a passing grade. |
| Mon, Nov 21 | Approximate integration 7.7 | 7.7 p524 # 1, 5, 7, 9, 15, 35 | |
| Wed, Nov 23 | Applications of differentiation: Max, min and the Mean Value Theorem 4.1, 4.2 | 4.1 p283 # 3, 5, 9, 11, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 69 4.2 p291 # 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 19 | |
| Mon, Nov 28 | Applications of differentiation: Graphing functions, l'Hospital's rule 4.3, 4.4 | 4.3 p300 # 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 49, 67 4.4 p311 # 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 23, 25, 27, 33, 39, 41, 45, 47, 49, 51, 55, 57, 61 | |
| Wed, Nov 30 | Applications of differentiation: Curve sketching 4.5 | 4.5 p321 # 1, 3, 9, 13, 15, 19, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 51 | |
| Mon, Dec 5 | Applications of differentiation: Optimization problems, Newton's method 4.7, 4.8 | 4.7 p336 # 7, 9, 13, 15, 19, 21, 25, 33, 35, 37, 43, 49 4.8 p348 # 7, 11, 13, 15 | |
| Wed, Dec 7 | Problems, review | ||
| Dec 8-Dec 22 | Final exam period |
Additional resources
Come to office hours! I am happy to answer any and all questions.
The Math Help Centre is open virtually all day, every day, for you to drop in and get answers to your questions (see website for details).